Meet RuQuan Brown, the DC native and Harvard student who will speak at tomorrow’s March For Our Lives.
, a nonprofit clothing brand that supports families who have been impacted by gun violence, and Victory Village, a consulting company that teaches educators, parents, and coaches how to support young adults. Last year, Brown donated a portion of Love1’s funds to the Love100 project, which aimed to send 100 DC public school students to therapy.
This year’s March For Our Lives comes in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The student-ledheld its first rally in 2018 after the massacre in Parkland, Florida. But Brown emphasizes that Black Americans have been experiencing gun violence for years, just without the marches and mass rallies. “People have been being murdered in the poorest neighborhoods in America for 40 years,” Brown says.
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