Their experiences being bullied in school compelled them to advocate for other LGBTQIA+ people by establishing their school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance, collaborate with organizations, like GLAAD, on projects, and to publishRead This, Save Lives About 150 black men were killed in the 1873 massacre in Colfax, Louisiana, over tensions about a gubernatorial election. When African Americans migrated from the south to work in northern factories, a white male driver in East St. Louis fired into Black homes in a 1917 shooting spree, killing dozens. In the January 1923 Rosewood Massacre, as many as 150 residents of a primarily Black Florida town were slaughtered. She is careful to clarify that equity and equality are not the same thing: “I can easily give a group of kids the resources they need, say shoes. Equality is a group of kids getting the same pair of shoes. Equity is everyone gets the same pair of shoes but they also get them in the size that fits," Collins says. people took to the streets, the material conditions that caused their collective grief and rage, and the structures that create and maintain those conditions, how do we expect to address the underlying issues and structures that precipitated this?