PBS News Hour

As protests continue, black women activists are leading

The nationwide protests set off by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are being led by a new generation of young activists, many of them black women. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Keisha Blain, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom,” to learn more.

As protests continue, black women activists are leading

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