4-21-2018, SPRINT Pavilion, Charlottesville, VA, USA. President of Black lives Matter of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, speaking during Listen First in Charlottesville. Listen First was part of the first National Week of Conversation (April 20-28, 2018). Listen First’s weekend events in Charlottesville, VA, were created to support healing and reconciliation after 2017 white supremacist and pro-confederacy protests left one woman dead and a community divided. A small number of seats of the 3,500 seat amphitheater were occupied on Saturday as speakers and panel discussions were presented.


4-21-2018, SPRINT Pavilion, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Black Lives Matter President, Hawk Newsome, speaking during Listen First in Charlottesville. Listen First was part of the first National Week of Conversation (April 20-28, 2018). Listen First’s weekend events in Charlottesville, VA, were created to support healing and reconciliation after 2017 white supremacist and pro-confederacy protests left one woman dead and a community divided. A small number of seats of the 3,500 seat amphitheater were occupied on Saturday as speakers and panel discussions were presented. Event Sponsors included local and national organizations including Black Lives Matter, Bridge Alliance, Better Angels and Common Ground Committee. Newsome became known after he was invited to the stage at mostly white pro-Trump Rally in the Capitol near the Washington Monument in 2017.


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