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Kacie Boone, a rising senior at East Rockingham High School in Elkton, Virginia, never considered herself to be an activist.
“It’s kind of new,” Boone said. “I’m not like a — I hate the term — ‘social justice’ type [of] person.”
But in June, that changed for the 17-year-old when she said the wave of protests following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis pushed her to act.