It’s hard to imagine a more fitting title for Bhad Bhabie’s debut mixtape than 15. “I want to transform the systems that we live under from ones that oppress us to ones that empower us.” -Cady Lang “I want to change the world’s perception of black youth and to empower black youth to claim their own space and demand to have our needs met,” Abdullah tells TIME. Now Abdullah is looking to the future, with plans of practicing law and continuing her work as an activist.
Through the Youth Vanguard, Abdullah also helped create “Black Lives Matter in Schools,” a program that aims to end the policing and profiling that black and brown students experience its agenda was recently adopted this summer by the National Education Association. This year alone, she has advocated for black youth in front of half a million people during the Women’s March in Los Angeles and written a widely shared op-ed for Bustle that addressed the need for intersectionality within the Never Again MSD movement. As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter LA Youth Vanguard, Abdullah has become one of her generation’s most powerful voices on issues relating to social justice.
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