Melissa C. Potter, head of Social Impact and Communications for Odyssey Impact, the organization behind "The Rape of Recy Taylor," has worked to bridge entertainment and advocacy.

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She criticized today's "new generation" of young people for "complaining and protesting about the murder of young Black men and women by police," but said they had no other plans beyond public protests.

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