“Civil rights leader John Lewis is survived by a generation of changemakers, ready to take up the baton.
In recent years, new leaders have emerged across the United States to champion rights – not just for African Americans, but also in the fields of migration and gender. They are using politics, social media campaigns and publishing in new ways to amplify and spread their messages.
Here are 21 current and emerging civil rights leaders who will shape struggles in the United States and the wider world for years to come.
15. Cheryl Dorsey, police reform
The retired Los Angeles police sergeant is the author of Blue and Black, a frank memoir of her life in the force, where she tackled gang violence. She says she grew up watching “white flight” transform her once middle-class LA district “into a Black neighbourhood, littered with gang activity” and has been working to improve things ever since. A prominent civil rights activist, Dorsey regularly appears in the US media to discuss abuses in policing.
Cheryl Dorsey has used her first-hand experience of law enforcement to inform her campaigns.“
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