Why must people be killed for change to occur? We’ve seen this be the case with the assassination Martin Luther King Jr., with the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and most recently — with the passing of Marielle Franco. Franco, an Afro-Brazilian politician who dedicated her entire life to fighting for women’s rights and rights for people of color in Brazil, was assassinated in her car along with her driver last week.
