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Be the change we want to see: Awele Makeba at TED2012

Be the change we want to see: Awele Makeba at TED2012

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson Awele Makeba is here not simply to tell us a story. She’s here to act one. Her story takes place in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1955, and her hero is the courageous teenager Claudette Colvin, who stayed seated on a segregated bus even when instructed by the driver to make []