Close to half a million students from all over the United States are expected to gather in the nation's capital on Saturday to demand gun reform. The most recent high school shooting in south Florida has galvanized a generation that has witnessed too many shootings. More young people are speaking out and taking action. Our correspondent Nitza Soledad Perez joined a group of students traveling from Florida.

Students from disadvantaged neighborhoods in South Florida boarded buses early Thursday morning to participate in the upcoming March For Our Lives rally in Washington DC. They want to make sure that lawmakers and the public do not forget that black minority youth are the more common, and less known victims of gun violence.

JANAI TENOR MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT "The media comes out for the things that are rare to happen and I feel that even goes to show that they know it's normal in our neighborhood, which is why they don't bring it out every day. They know that it is a routine for us. And because I feel l wake up every day, I'm surviving the natural, I'm surviving my norm, I feel like I am a hero in itself because by being able to walk the streets of my neighborhood and go to school every day and make it back."

In the US, around 10 times more black children die in shootings every year than white children. These young people represent ICARE, inner city Alumni for responsible education. They travelled for two days to join the mass student protest for gun reforms. The demonstration's inspired by the advocacy group Never Again MSD, MSD stands for Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February. I was allowed to join these Miami inner city students in their search for justice and awareness.

NIJA MAXWELL, STUDENT MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL "A lot of people ask about gun violence and how we can stop it. And a lot of people say ok, but somebody has to take the stand, the adults have to lead the students or the youth, but has anybody stopped to realize that the adults do not know what to do either? And that is why we are running around in circles. The blind cannot lead the blind."

They say they just want to be heard.

JAMESHA CORKER, STUDENT NORTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL "I would like to see more positivity. Instead of going to school and your teacher saying something negative to you, how about, hey, how are you doing today? It's about their home. More than likely if a child is misbehaving in your class, it's because something is going in their home. So instead of bringing them down, try to empower them, try to empower your class. Don't tell us more negative things, we don't want to hear it."

These students want the hashtag Never Again to also mean never Again Ignored. Nitza Soledad Perez, CGTN, Washington.