ABC-Owned Stations and Participant Mark Anniversary of George Floyd Murder With ‘A Year of Activism’ Special

ABC Owned Television Stations has partnered with Participant to produce the special “Our America: A Year of Activism,” which will stream beginning May 25 and feature three roundtable discussions of activism following the murder a year ago of George Floyd.

Prominent artists, activists and journalists featured in the discussions include Fred Hampton Jr., filmmaker Steve James, Ai-jen Poo, April Reign, ESPN senior writer Jesse Washington, Jimmie Briggs, Fredrika Newton, Marshall Hatch Jr., Steve James, Dr. Shamell Bell and Xaiver Brown.

ABC stations race and culture journalists Will Jones, TaRhonda Thomas and Julian Glover will moderating the panel discussions. Topics of the panels center on intergenerational activism, multiracial solidarity and media framing of racial justice issues, respectively.

“Our America: A Year of Activism” will stream on news apps for ABC stations ABC7/WABC-TV New York, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles , ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago, 6ABC/WPVI-TV Philadelphia, ABC7/KGO-TV San Francisco, ABC13/KTRK-TV Houston, ABC11/WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and ABC30/KFSN-TV Fresno.

The panel discussion is executive produced by ABC Owned Television Stations’ race and culture content executive producers Nzinga Blake, Porsha Grant and Mariel Myers.

“Collaborating with Participant on this panel discussion was definitely a passion project, and we are so honored to have been able to get the support and expertise of our panelists, who are respected social impact thought leaders,” Blake said. “The panel discussions encourage our audiences to engage in ongoing honest conversations about where we are as a society, and it’s imperative that we as storytellers and journalists have solutions-oriented conversations that can hopefully encourage understanding and empathy to build a more equitable world for all.”