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"Do Black lives matter to you?"

©Lisa Johnson/KUMD

Kym Young is a longtime human rights advocate in the Duluth/Superior community where she's worked for social justice and equal rights for marginalized groups.

  She's an elder, she's retired, and by her own admission, she's a vulnerable adult when it comes to COVID-19.

  She's also a veteran of many, many protests and marches.  But when she got a call from the community last Saturday to speak at the march and protest in downtown Duluth to remember George Floyd, she showed up.

  Here are Kym's comments, recorded from the beginning of the march.
 

  Kym Young is the founder of the Superior African Heritage Community . She made opening remarks at the beginning of Saturday's march and protest in downtown Duluth to remember George Floyd.

You can see more photos from the march here on our Facebook page.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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