The Global Good Award is BET International’s recognition of public figures who use their platform for social responsibility and goodness while demonstrating a commitment to the welfare of the global Black community.

In 2016, Assa Traoré’s brother Adama was asphyxiated to death in a police station on his 24th birthday.

BET sat down with Assa Traoré to congratulate her on her award-winning achievement, her views on police brutality and violence, and the impact the Global Good award has left on her.

Unfortunately, this death resonates to the passing of my little brother Adama because he died the same way under the weight of three police officers on his body.

We were more than 80,000 persons and we marched to ask Justice for George Floyd and Adama Traoré, fighting the same police brutality against our people.