'I wanted him to see all the people coming together, protesting and fighting for his future so he doesn't have to be a target,' the mother in the photo says. 'I raised his little fist up. I don't want to bury my son.'
Activists such as DeRay Mckesson, protester Ariana Evans and more, are using their voices to demand institutional change.A Chicago photographer's photo of a black mother and her baby boy is touching people by the thousands.
"I got there right before people started gathering," she said. Within a short time, she said, thousands of people had gathered. Cars with"Black Lives Matter" and similarly supportive signs were arriving in droves. "I was snapping away and I saw a woman driving a car. I looked in the backseat and I saw a mother, holding her son, encouraging the baby to look at protesters with tears running down her face. We locked eyes, raised our fists and gave a nod. We both knew," she said.
"I told D'Asia to raise him up to the camera," she told"GMA." Matthew's grandmother said he was the youngest protester present Saturday.
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