Joshua Shepherd, who at the time of the interview was the President of the 2019-2020 Black Student Union at UNC Charlotte, discusses the protests on campus and in Uptown Charlotte that followed the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on September 20 2016. Mr. Scott was an African American man who was shot and killed outside an apartment complex close to the UNC Campus. Mr. Shepherd explains why and how he got involved with the protests after the shooting, and his subsequent role in the Black Student Union at UNC Charlotte. He also discusses his perceptions of and involvement in the larger black community, and the way that police brutality, injustice, and racism have shaped his experience as a black man in America.
