Tony Goldwyn, actor and co-chair of the Innocence Project Artists’ Committee, introduces a handful of women whose black sons or daughters have died through gun violence or in police custody: They’ve “turned their pain into power and their outrage into action. They are the Mothers of the Movement.
As the Mothers of the Movement walk out on stage -- Sybrina Fulton, Geneva Reed-Veal, Lucy McBath, Gwen Carr, Cleopatra Pendelton, Maria Hamilton, Lezley McSpadde, and Wanda Johnson -- the crowd in the arena begins chanting "Black Lives Matter!"
Sandra Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, wrangles the crowd to be quiet. She recites the names of the other women who died the same month her daughter died in police custody and a small group in the crowd chants with her.