-We never got the full citizenship.
We never got the reparations.
We come to Lincoln because you promised,
Mister Lincoln, and the promise has been broken.
And we come like Doctor King came 57 years ago
to say we are tired of broken promises.
-Tell it!
-As a Black schoolteacher working in the hood,
I de-escalated so many fights.
Like, really?
If I can de-escalate a fight
and keep two kids from killing each other,
why can't y'all do that?
I'm not equipped with a weapon, no one gets hurt,
and I'm able to keep my students from being suspended.
So what's your excuse? Oh, let me guess.
You fear Black men and that's why you immediately
want to take them out.
If someone is walking away from you, back turned,
walking away, what are you killing them for?
-Black lives matter! -Black Lives Matter.
-Black lives matter! -I'm marching for George.
For Breonna.
For Ahmaud.
For Jacob. For Pamela Turner.
[sniffles] For Michael Brown.
Trayvon.
And anybody else who lost their lives.
Or to evil.
-I feel like I couldn't pass up this moment
especially considering the situation
that we're in in the country.
You know, we're in an emergency situation.
Black men are an endangered species.
So I'm just here to represent for all the Black men
that couldn't be here and put my feet to the pavement
and really show what we're about.
-Less than a year before he was assassinated,
my grandfather predicted this very moment.
He said that we were moving into a new phase of the struggle.
The first phase was the civil rights
and the new phase is genuine equality.
Genuine equality is why we are here today
and why people are coming together all across the world,
from New Zealand to New Jersey.
He said that we must not forget the days of Montgomery.
We must not forget the sit-ins movement.
We must not forget the freedom rides,
the Birmingham movement, and Selma.
Papa King, we won't.
♪ Be ready ♪
-Come on! Come on!
♪ Be ready ♪
-What y'all ready for?
♪ For change ♪
-We've seen the shooting from our high school
gain worldwide attention, but the mass shooting
that happened in South East DC three weeks ago
where 17-year-old Christopher Brown
lost his life and 20 people were wounded got no attention.
Be outraged equally for Black lives.
It's important that as I talk about gun violence,
I address police violence.
We must shift from a punitive
to a rehabilitative model in the prison system.
There is a need for a national conversation
of defunding police departments
and refunding our communities instead.
-It is my obligation to remind you that amongst us here
today there are Black queer, Black trans,
Black nonbinary organizers who are living in the trenches
to ensure that one day soon we can all be free.
And so if you care about Black people like I do,
if you love Black people like I do,
you got to love and care about all of us.
Fannie Lou Hamer said a long time ago
that unless and until all of us are free none of us are free.
And so I hope that we all commit to getting free together
because we have nothing to lose but our chains.
-There are two systems of justice in the United States.
There's a White system and there's a Black system.
The Black system ain't doing so well.
But we're gonna stand up.
Every Black person in the United States is gonna stand up.
We're tired!
I'm tired!
-We do these marches, we do these protests.
We rah rah rah.
Two weeks later, the same thing happens.
And you know I'm not lying.
So what I would like to see happen after this march.
Just stop killing us. God damn.
Just stop killing us.