Fighting for What’s Right

“During the BLM protest, racism was a major topic of discussion and that conversation still continues today,” he says. “It’s a topic that needs to be discussed to help the future generations and our current society.”

Inspired by US lawyer, Benjamin Crump, who represented George Floyd’s family, Tyelle Phillips wants to study criminal justice and hopes to go into either law enforcement or become a lawyer so he can help the “people that need it the most”.

He also likes to help his home community in other ways, which include helping to grow a school garden, donating that produce to the local church and taking part in KBB clean-ups.

Tyelle’s project fits into the IB MYP global context of perspective through fairness and development, which encourages an inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.