In recognition of Black History Month, the Los Angeles City Council recently paid tribute to Thandiwe Abdullah — a local student-activist who was named among Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018.
Abdullah, a 15-year-old sophomore in high school, co-founded the Black Lives Matter Youth Vanguard. The advocacy group — made up of children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 — started organizing students, parents, and faculty against the “over-policing” of L.A.’s public schools in 2016. The district is the second-largest in the nation with an enrollment of more than 600,000.
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