White-Hammond a key speaker at Women's March in Boston
This text is taken from BU Today’s full article, published on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. By Sara Rimer and Ian Evans.
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At the Boston Women’s March for America, activist and ordained minister Mariama White-Hammond (STH’17) was one of the key speakers. “We’re going to have a lot of work to do after this,” White-Hammond said after the march. “It’s not about showing up at one big march, it’s about the work we need to do in our communities. We had a transformative leader—Barack Obama—and we didn’t show up. I definitely did stuff, but I didn’t wake up and say, ‘For the next eight years we have a president who actually gives a crap about people, and I should be organizing like I never have before.’ We didn’t give him the cover he needed. We didn’t ask, how can we together transform America—we expected him to do it… We should have done more.”
Saturday, said White-Hammond, the daughter of the Rev. Gloria White- Hammond, M.D. (CAS’72, Hon.’09) and the Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D. (Hon’99), was a new beginning.