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Young Black Activists Are Leading the Movement for Black Lives
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Across the nation, a new cohort of young, Black, often queer-identifying women are at the vanguard of the movement for Black lives.
Clockwise from top left: Van Covington, Aly Conyers, Jaelah Lymon and Oluchi Omeoga
Aly Conyers was 13 when she attended her first Black Lives Matter protest.
Now 17, the Washington, DC native, track runner, and student activist has been at the forefront of recent demonstrations in her city. Aly and her brother Ace founded a group, Faces of the Future, shortly after George Floyd was killed by police outside of a Minneapolis supermarket.
“My brother and I were really moved to have our own protest,” Aly tells Teen Vogue. “We thought we’d get a lot of young people out in a very organized way for our voices to be heard. So we created a protest at Howard University, and it actually turned out really big. Since then we’ve had two others.”
Aly, who says she dreams of being president one day, explains that organizing is a way for her to have a voice in her community. “It’s one thing to go out protesting; it’s another thing to know what you’re fighting for,” she says. “That’s what I say to people that can’t make it out. Know your rights, know what you’re fighting for, do your research.”
The Trayvon generation has come of age, and they're fed up. Across the nation, a new cohort of young, Black, often queer-identifying women are at the vanguard of the movement for Black lives. In the weeks since Floyd’s killing sparked riots, uprisings, and heightened debate over the role of police in our streets and schools, these young activists have been at the heart of it all, fighting for their vision of a fairer future.
In Nashville, six high school students founded Teens4Equality in the wake of Floyd’s death: Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith, and Mikayla Smith launched the organization after meeting on Twitter. The girls' first protest brought more than 10,000 people into the streets of their hometown.
“What really sparked things up for us was we reached out to Black Lives Matter Nashville, and we asked them if they would support our protest,” says 15-year-old Jade. “We started getting a lot of demand, a lot of people asking us if we wanted any donations. What really helped us was [other] people — like, it wasn't all on us. We got a ton of donations in advance for water bottles and first aid and all of that, and then we have the legal team on our side with Black Lives Matter Nashville. All these amazing people just came together.”
Jaelah Lymon, a community organizer based in Minneapolis, tells Teen Vogue that her activism has also been supported by the groundwork laid by existing social justice organizations. Lymon, 20, is a junior and a member of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities’ branch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
“I'm very passionate about social justice, particularly racial social justice,” she says. “I'm just kind of getting involved in organizing, because I have a passion. I feel like it helps me stay sane, knowing that, like, I have some type of control in a system that’s larger than me.”
Lymon says she got involved in SDS because she was impressed with the group’s visible presence on campus. “They weren’t afraid to have their voices heard on campus. I feel like sometimes that passion isn’t held in all organizations because of their bureaucracy,” she explains. “SDS wasn’t afraid to test the waters and break boundaries.”
Lymon says her SDS branch is currently fighting to disarm and defund on-campus police. The group is looking to cut millions of dollars from the department’s budget and reallocate the money left over to multicultural organizations, like the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence, or MCAE, Black Student Union, and La Raza.
Teen Vogue has reached out to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for comment.
While most of the activists Teen Vogue spoke to are part of a formal organization, a few are working independently in their communities. Such is the case for Van Covington, another Minneapolis-based organizer.
This 20-year-old Black, queer, cis-indentifying woman started organizing with friends in 2017, after giving presentations on microaggressions in middle and high schools. After graduating, Covington met other organizers in the city, and since then most of her work has encompassed advocating for the removal of police from Minneapolis Public Schools and the overall abolishment of police in Minneapolis.
“Since then, a lot of my time has been dedicated to redistributing [mutual aid] funds in Minneapolis, getting gear for protesters," she says, "specifically Black youth on the front lines, and raising money for those bonds.” 
Because the current iteration of the Black Lives Matter movement is more decentralized than ever before, the organizers Teen Vogue spoke to all have unique perspectives on where the movement is headed, what the focus is, and how best to take action.
Oluchi Omeoga, cofounder of Black Visions Collective, says they believe this current movement is distinct from past protest efforts because of the groundwork that’s been done since the original Black Lives Matter project was founded in 2013.
“I really do believe that set the framework for what is happening right now,” they say. “'Cause folks are able to call on a time in the recent past that folks were able to take back some resemblance of power. I think that helped shift the narrative about how folks are talking, specifically about abolition in this moment.… Folks have been talking about that consistently, and our message has not shifted — it’s actually gotten more specific.”
Organizers gave a range of responses when asked about the spark that ignited the uprisings. Aly, the DC-based student activist, points to the lack of emotion expressed by former police officer Derek Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd’s neck, extinguishing his life.
“It’s one thing for an African American man to be killed, but if it’s on video and you see the police officer looking into the camera seeing that it’s being recorded, and his arrogance and his confidence that he’s going to be able to get away with something while it’s being recorded,” she says. “I think that’s what’s most shocked our community.”
Jade of Teens4Equality attributed the uprisings to the rapid spread of information via social media. “I feel like Gen Z, since we're all growing up now and growing up on social media, you see a lot more from a firsthand perspective,” she explains. “The power of social media is brilliant. The way these videos spread is crazy. Will Smith said racism isn’t getting worse, it’s getting filmed, and I think that’s powerful. Because racism didn’t just start; people are just now opening their eyes due to social media.”
For her part, Covington says that this sort of revolt is simply overdue. “I think that everyone in Minneapolis, everyone in Minnesota, who is a Black person that lives here could have seen this coming,” she says. “[We] could have seen the uprising, the riots, the burning of the precinct — we all saw this coming.”
Covington says Floyd’s killing helped puncture the illusion of Minneapolis as an overtly progressive place, allowing people to see the city for what it truly is. “People believe that Minnesota, in general, is a very liberal progressive, forward-thinking state,” she says, “but it’s not. The racism that people experience here is a little more passive. You know, Minnesota nice.”
To Covington the problem is as clear as day: “Minneapolis was fed up. Black youth are fed up.”
All of the organizers Teen Vogue spoke to voice support for abolishing the police. Some worry their message will be watered down and mistaken for mere reform, but others are not as stressed.
“It's just really hard to not put yourself in that role where you have to educate, educate, educate,” Covington says of conversations about abolition getting lumped in with reform. “It’s a favor [to] hold other people accountable. You’re doing them a favor. So I feel like some things are above you. I feel like for people trying to look in and tap in to see what people are doing, why people are hurt, what people care about — you cannot look to the news for that. You have to look to people doing the work.”
Black Visions Collective cofounder Omeoga emphasizes the importance of language. “For us, it’s about being specific in the language that we’re using,” they say. “We explicitly say defunding is a tool to be used and that abolition is the end goal. That’s the most that we can do in these situations. We can do the political education and the grass roots organizing, but we just have to be very specific in our politics.”
Moving forward, the organizers have varied ideas about the most pressing next steps. Aly, who won’t be voting in the upcoming presidential election because she’s under 18, says Faces of the Future is focused on making sure those who can vote are registered.
“Our priorities are making sure people understand what we're fighting for,” she says. “We’re making sure people know their rights, and also going out to vote. I feel like we can always change the system from within, and that means electing the right person to reflect that.”
Lymon says Students for a Democratic Society is focused on getting its list of demands to university officials. Those demands include implementing a campus and community police accountability council that will transfer decision-making power to students.
“I think we’re just going to keep pushing our demands and see how far we can get with those,” she says. “We’re trying to get other groups on board as well. I think what we’re centering our message around is that we are for the people.”
Teens4Equality is also focused on taking action and reallocating money for organizations that support the communities the group hopes to uplift. “We do love spreading awareness and spreading education,” Jade begins, “but we have a Venmo of donations that people send to us, and we are donating to different funds. We aren't just spreading awareness; we want to do more and donate, petition, change laws.”
While most organizers are focused on big-picture work related to the movement, Covington is ready to help Black youth on the front lines take care of themselves. After a night of decompressing with friends, she realized how important self-care is, especially during times of huge upheaval, like the past few weeks. “My friend and I came up with the idea to do a retreat for Black youth who've been on the front lines at protests and also just organizing in the community as well,” she says.
It took a while to get here, she says. When she first got involved with political and social advocacy, Covington thought her ultimate goal was to educate, but her priorities shifted as she got older.
“That role was always projected onto [Black women],” she explains. “Having to explain our humanity — or another person's humanity — to people, and when I first started organizing, that's what I thought my role was. It's not a Black woman's job to do that and always be at the forefront of trying to get people to validate us,” she says. “So as an organizer that just really connects, now my priority [is] shifting to care.”
Covington has raised enough money for three different retreat dates through the end of July. She says the retreats will be able to accommodate at least 30 young people.
“Organizing and fighting for the things which we all want to happen is a lifelong thing,” she says. “I wish I could just take the hat off at the end of the summer and go back to school, but we aren’t able to do that while we live under a white supremacy. So just because people are not out protesting at this time in Minneapolis, people are still doing a lot of on-ground work — running food banks, creating relief funds, and a lot of other things that aren't protesting, but deserve the same type of attention and validation.”
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