Thousands of young people are set to go to Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a “March for Our Lives” to urge the US Congress to pass tougher gun laws.
Bipartisan negotiators work to strike a deal in the wake of a spate of shootings, according to The Hill, a US daily newspaper specializing in congressional affairs.
The newspaper added that the demonstration will take place less than a month after 19 students and teachers were killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and 10 black people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Similar rallies are scheduled to be held in more than 450 cities in the United States and around the world on Saturday.
In an exclusive interview with “The Hill,” Yolanda Renee King, the 13-year-old granddaughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who will deliver one of the keynote speeches at this week’s Washington rally, said young activists are frustrated after years of protest and numberless deaths.
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