Several Washington Latin students including seniors Zoe Edelman, Yao Calhoun and LiQian Shoag attended the 57th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial last week. While teachers struggled to attend due to afternoon team meetings, several students in the upper school were able to go because classes ended at 2:30. The event rallied for social justice on issues like racism, police brutality, and economic injustice. The march, organized by the Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, was called the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” Commitment March on Washington, and included several speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial followed by a march to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Speakers included relatives of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Jacob Blake, who spoke about police brutality and the unnecessary injury and murder of unarmed African Americans.