TSU students held rally against injustice
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- At least two dozen students in Houston marched in solidarity this afternoon with those in Ferguson, Missouri.
The students from Texas Southern University and their friends met at the Shrine of the Black Madonna and then chanted their way up Martin Luther King Boulevard to the statue of the slain civil rights leader in MacGregor Park.
They say the death of an unarmed Michael Brown by a law enforcement officer highlights just one of many dangers young African-Americans face in their own neighborhoods every day.
Gabrielle Clark, a law student at TSU, tells Eyewitness News, "Dr. Martin Luther King was correct when he said that injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. And we're gonna take a stand and we're gonna let our voices be heard."
The students say this is a critical time in our region and country and that the lives of young African-Americans are not valued, their voices not heard.
They say they must engage young African-American to help foster the building blocks of a solution. They want to work constructively to find a solution to the problem and turn their actions into justice.
