Guest column: Listen to our youth when tragedies happen
After a student was shot at Cummings Elementary School, family pickup students on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 at Metropolitan Baptist Church. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Zahra Chowdhury
Zahra Chowdhury is a native Memphian and a senior at Pleasant View School. She is a youth organizer who is passionate about criminal & juvenile justice reform and deconstructing the school to prison pipeline.
Dana Wilson
Dana Wilson is President and CEO of BRIDGES and the founding coordinator of Bridge Builders CHANGE.
If leaders would listen to our youth, they would explain in depth why an allocation of resources should be shifted away from policing and into counseling.
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