RadioOnFire.com - Towson High School senior will be able to recite a poem called "Believe Me" before his classmates tonight during a senior talent show. The poem refers to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The principal of the school told the Baltimore Sun that she never banned Senior Class President Marcus Shaw from reciting the poem. He claims that after a meeting with the principal he was not going to be able to perform it because he refers to police officers who start riots instead of keeping the peace.
The senior also talks about the death of Eric Garner--the black man who was seen in video in New York as police put in him in a chokehold while he screamed he couldn't breathe.
There was also an online petition signed by more than 2,500 in support of Shaw and his poem.
Source WBAL
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