As thousands of people marched from Philadelphia's Museum of Art to City Hall on Saturday, a bride and groom in wedding attire joined the protesters.
they postponed their larger wedding party due to the coronavirus pandemic, but decided to get married on June 6 anyway."I'm meeting my husband, on our wedding day, as a strong black man and a good representative of who we are as people, what our men are like, what our culture is like. " she said."It was just a very, very empowering moment for us considering all of this is happening at one moment in one time.
Gordon, who was born in Jamaica, and her husband, who is of Caribbean descent -- said they've both felt the issues at the heart of the protests on a personal level, according to ABC. "We all see this injustice. We all want to see this needle shift away from the status quo and ... that made this day more memorable in ways," Michael Gordon, 42, told the outlet.
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