The New York City Racial Justice Commission invites all New Yorkers to get involved in NYC for Racial Justice, the final phase of public engagement to help inform the Commission as it finalizes NYC Charter revisions that aim to advance racial … Read More
Photo credit: Sami Disu On Saturday, May 29 family members of victims of police violence led about 100 marchers through East New York and Brownsville, beginning with a stop at the location where Delrawn Small was killed by NYPD officer … Read More
Thousands of protesters gathered at the State Office Building in Harlem on May 30, 2020, to voice their outcry for the killing of George Floyd and countless other Black Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of the … Read More
The legal team representing the family of George Floyd announced in a statement that George Floyd’s family will hire an independent medical examiner to conduct their own autopsy after the Hennepin County Medical Examiner found that Floyd’s cause of death … Read More
John Mark Harrington, the current Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, just announced that former Minneapolis police officer Dereck Chauvin was taken into custody. He did not specify what the charges were. National outcry followed the now viral … Read More
A couple of days after the third man involved in the killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery was finally arrested in Georgia, the Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper had the police called on him, on Memorial Day, for allegedly “threatening” a … Read More
Unarmed 25-year-old man, Ahmaud Arbery, was killed by a father and a son in Brunswick, GA, on February 23, 2020 while he was jogging. The father and son, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, are going about their business in Georgia … Read More
