The Umoja Arts & Culture Drum Festival will bring driving beats and members of the community together June 12 from 5 to 10 p.m. in the Pavillion at Founders Park in Johnson City.
Several different drumming performances will be featured, including African drumming by Peter Gbaa and a drum circle where members of the Johnson City Drum Circle will engage with each other to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games.
Youth from Carver Recreation Center will participate in a workshop where they will be taught drumming using the African drums. The instructor is Obayana Ajanaku, who is an African drum instructor who has taught for 14 years at Austin East High School in Knoxville. His drums have taken him professionally to Russia, Brazil and throughout the U.S. New Vision Youth group from Kingsport will also participate in this workshop.
Timeline shows how shooting at Austin-East High School in Knoxville unfolded
DA Charme Allen went over the moments starting about noon April 12 until Anthony Thompson Jr. was shot to death. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 10:34 PM CDT April 21, 2021
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Over more than two hours Wednesday afternoon, Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen presented key pieces of evidence gathered in the investigation into the April 12 fatal shooting at Austin-East High School involving four police officers and student Anthony Thompson Jr.
Here s a timeline of events that day which led up to the confrontation in a school bathroom about 3:15 p.m.
Minnesota students walk out of schools in solidarity with the racial justice movement.
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Students from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis joined other students in a statewide walkout on Monday to protest racial injustice.Credit.Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
Students streamed out of schools across Minnesota on Monday afternoon to protest racial injustice, in a coordinated action that coincided with closing arguments in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd.
At 1:47 p.m., students held a moment of silence for Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who was fatally shot last week by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., about 10 miles from the courthouse where Mr. Chauvin is on trial.