The Detroit Lions canceled practice earlier this week and NBA players have boycotted the playoffs as a show of unity in their support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which stands against all racial inequality and police brutality.
Now, football players from Michigan and Eastern Michigan have organized a Black Lives Matter (BLM) peaceful protest for Sunday in Ann Arbor in response to the death of Jacob Blake, a black man shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisc., last Sunday.
Michigan defensive back Hunter Reynolds, a founder of College Athlete Unity, and EMU linebacker Tariq Speights, are rallying student-athletes from their schools and anyone who wishes to participate to “peacefully protest the racial injustices that African Americans in our country continue to face daily.