Peaceful engagement and conversation with local law

enforcement, encouraging teens and young adults to vote, attending city council meetings, school board meetings and share their ideas for improvement for people of color that are many times ignored.

Blacks are tired of being marginalized, their voices ignored in the political direction of the city, their communities gentrified and the brutality of law enforcement on unarmed youth, teens, and young adults and boys and girls that live in Jacksonville.

Ms. Burton used Juneteenth as a catalyst to meet and develop strategies to share their voices in protest for change in how Blacks are engaged with law enforcement and even finances distributed across the city to be

more inclusive and equitable of Black and other communities of color.

Ms. Burton and other teens and young adults love their neighborhoods, their schools and their city, but feel marginalized (left out of the political process), victimized by law enforcement, fearful of being targeted, distrustful of the political leadership in place that will not listen to their concerns.

The future of Jacksonville rests with involvement of the youth, teens, and young adults who will take a stand for improvement and progress across the city of Jacksonville and other cities across the nation.