<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Arisha Michelle Hatch, ColorOfChange.org</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@colorofchange.org">info@colorofchange.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: The vivid words of Langston Hughes still ring true today<br>To: Will Notnow <<a href="mailto:BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com">BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p>Dear Will,</p>
<p><b>It’s been 77 years since civil rights activist and poet Langston Hughes wrote his chilling poem “Kids Who Die,” which illuminates the horrors of lynchings during the Jim Crow era.</b> Now, as we approach the one year mark of the tragic police killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson uprising that sparked a growing movement, Hughes' words painfully still ring true today.</p>
<p>Frank Chi, progressive media consultant, and Terrance Green, a filmmaker and strategist, have created a powerful video visualizing the injustice of current day police violence through Hughes' poem. Inspired by the incredible acts of resistance that have taken place since August of last year, Terrance and Frank's creative work confronts the reality of what it means to be Black in America.</p>
<p><b>August 9th is a big day for the movement and many of us will wrestle with the weight of it's many meanings. </b>While this Sunday represents a day of unconscionable tragedy, it also marks the re-birth of a powerful Black-led movement to end systemic racism that is poised to change the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/5127?t=1&akid=4642.2280305.VF6SLo" target="_blank"><b>Check here to watch the "Kids Who Die Video." Once you are done, help spread it's message by sharing with your friends and family.</b></a></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px">Thanks and peace,</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px">— Arisha, Rashad, Shani, Lyla and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team<br> August 5th, 2015</p>
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