Tamir Rice's mother, Samaria, to speak at Kent State May 4 commemoration
newsnet5.com staff
10:42 AM, May 4, 2016
16 mins ago
... According to university administration, the May 4 Task Force, a student organization on campus, decided to make this year’s theme “Black Lives Matter: Long Live the Memory of Kent State and Jackson State."
In line with that theme, the group asked Samaria Rice to give the keynote speech. Rice is the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014 .
“The May 4 Task Force has been talking all year about the significance of police violence to May 4 and of racial oppression to the histories of both the Kent State and Jackson State shootings,” said Alan “Tré” Dufner, president of the May 4 Task Force, according to a press released from the school. “And with our choice of Samaria Rice as keynote speaker, it was most appropriate to theme the commemoration around Black Lives Matter. It is my hope that attendees will gain a deeper perspective into the ways the lives of black people and protesters for justice are dismissed, degraded and destroyed. And I hope those in attendance will have a greater reverence for the lives we lose to police violence every day” ...
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