Charlottesville Anti-Racism Activist Zyahna Bryant Reimagines Race and Space

A conversation with one of the nation’s foremost young activists

Sam Heath
Momentum
Published in
6 min readNov 2, 2020

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Zyahna Bryant speaking into a micriphone before the Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee.
Photos: Derrick Waller

My favorite image of Zyahna Bryant is one of her standing before Charlottesville, Virginia’s statue of Robert E. Lee. The 19-year-old activist seems to face it down as well as anyone who might oppose her demands to have it…

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Sam Heath
Momentum

Husband, father, teacher, Charlottesville resident. Speak truth to power.