From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant.
Days after George Floyd was killed, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta asked me to speak about racial inequality in America.
COVID-19 had already shown us who lacked health care, savings and a safety net. His death put the rest of it in front of the whole world. I founded Operation HOPE after Los Angeles burned in 1992. Nearly thirty years later, the lesson is the same: lasting peace requires real economic opportunity.
Source: World Affairs Council of Atlanta, June 5, 2020.