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sussex Earlier this month, the Duchess of Sussex gave a speech to her former high school in Los Angeles, after the terrible events that has shaken America.

“George Floyd’s life mattered and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered and Philando Castile’s life mattered and Tamir Rice’s life mattered, and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know ” (...) “I can’t imagine that at 17 or 18 years old, which is how old you are, that you would have to have a different version of that same type of experience. That’s something that you should have an understanding of, but an understanding of as a history lesson, not as your reality.”

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sussex The Duchess of Sussex joined the 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit, where she gave a virtual speech about the gender equality, racial injustice, youth empowerment, and the importance of creating a healthy digital community.

“There will always be negative voices and sometimes those voices can appear to be outsized, and sometimes they can appear to be painfully loud. You can and will use your own voices to drown out the noise. Because that’s what it is—just noise.” (...) “We are not meant to be breaking each other down; we are meant to be building each other up. So use your voice both on-and-offline to do just that – build each other up, support each other. ... Your voices are those of truth. And hope. And your voices can and should be much louder.”

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