Charlottesville teen goes from targeting a statue to taking on the system
Aug 07, 2018
3 minutes
Life’s been a lot busier for Zyahna Bryant since the events of Aug. 12, 2017.
A year before, Ms. Bryant – then 15 – had started an online petition to remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a park in downtown Charlottesville. It wasn’t her first foray into activism: she was just seven when her grandmother took her to campaign for Barack Obama. As an elementary school student, she quickly realized that she was one of only a handful of black students at the
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