They saw their schoolmates shot dead - and they sing of love. Parkland Shooting Survivors at Tony Awards

At this year’s Tony Awards, students from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School drama department in Parkland, Florida, survivors of the school’s Valentine’s Day massacre, performed the emotional Rent classic “Seasons of Love,” to remember their slain classmates and also celebrate their strength, resilience, and hope for the future.


How do you measure that year? In hate, in injustice, in bullets, shitty men, and darkness. But also, as those students proved, in compassion, grace, in education, fortitude, and so much love... Listen:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tony-awards-parkland-shooting-survivors-deliver-emotional-performance-of-seasons-of-love?ref=home

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