Black Lives Matter planning 'love' march from NYC to DC to commemorate deadly Charlottesville rally anniversary
by Kelly Cohen
| July 29, 2018 02:26 PM
The Bronx leader of the Black Lives Matter group is leading a coalition in a Friday march from New York City to Washington, D.C.
The march, which Hawk Newsome says will be one of “love,†will end with an Aug. 12 protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The white supremacist group and its supporters will also be in Washington for the anniversary.
“Our goal is not to confront them physically, but to create a wave of love around them,†Newsome told the New York Daily News, “to say there is no place in our society for bigoted hate groups.â€
The 2017 rally in Charlottesville included alt-right groups, neo-Confederates, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis who gathered there to protest the removal of Confederate monuments in the city.
The clash between white supremacists and counterprotesters resulted in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
“It was a war zone,†Newsome said.
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