aith Lightsy says her first instance of activism was to challenging a teacher in fifth grade.
Aged 10 or 11, she confronted the teacher who awarded a higher grade to a white girl who had got the same marks. So she organised a petition and collected 60 signatures. The other girl was moved to a different class.
Was it racism? Perhaps. What it certainly represented was an early consideration about the discrimination faced by millions of people for colour in the United States. Sometimes by their own families.
