luv4u said:

Since Prince’s death, activist and CNN commentator Van Jones has worn a purple tie for his TV appearances and has seen other people do similar things. “We’re just trying to signal we’re still loyal to the throne, even though the throne is empty now,” he says. That’s because the artist left behind what Jones calls an “invisible network and army” of activists and non-musicians whom he worked with and supported.

Rolling Stone magazine:

https://www.rollingstone....st-785577/

Great article.

...#YesWeCode was originally born of Prince’s vision to mold “black Mark Zuckerbergs,” to use Jones’ terminology, after the murder of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Where other people thought the reason Martin was murdered was racism, Prince looked at the bigger picture. “When you see a black kid wearing a hoodie, everybody says, ‘There goes a thug,'” Jones remembers Prince saying. “But if you see a white kid wearing a hoodie, everybody says, ‘Well, there goes Mark Zuckerberg.'” So Prince’s idea was to create an initiative that would shift people’s perceptions of what black and marginalized people and place them in new careers...

[Edited 2/19/19 6:55am]

Thanks