The nonprofit group Blacks in Law Enforcement Servicing the Community hosted a raising of the Black Lives Matter flag at City Hall in honor of George Floyd.
Stop Saying People of Color When You Mean Black | Opinion Andrea Plaid and Christopher MacDonald-Dennis
, Author of Penning with the People and Chief Diversity Officer at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts On 5/26/21 at 12:10 PM EDT
This week, we re marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His death at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin who has been convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter sparked a national conversation about racism in America. It s a conversation that s long overdue, that activists like us have been waiting for for too long.
But the national conversation hasn t been perfect. Far from it. And we ve noticed one particular penchant that we feel requires correction: the use of the term people of color when what you mean is Black.
On Anniversary Of George Floydâs Death, Families Of Men Killed By Boston Police Demand Cases Be Reopened
Hope Coleman, 65, the mother of Terrence Coleman, and Carla Sheffield, 56, the mother of Burrell Ramsey-White, at a rally at Franklin Park in Roxbury, Tuesday. May 25, 2021
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The families of five young men who died following altercations with Boston Police â Usaama Rahim, Terrence Coleman, Burrell Ramsey-White, Ross Batista and Juston Root â gathered at Franklin Park in Roxbury Tuesday to demand that the deaths be investigated, and that the cases be reopened.
At a rally organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, Ramsey-Whiteâs mother, Carla Sheffield, asked a crowd of around 100 people to help reopen the case involving her son, who was shot and killed by Boston Police following a traffic stop in 2012.
More than 100 people gathered at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd s death.
The event was organized by the No Justice, No Peace PAC, the New Frontier Fund, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa and others. It comes one year after Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, was murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Floyd s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25, 2020.
Speakers at the event said in gathering to remember Floyd s death, that they hope to make sure he didn t die in vain. West Des Moines city councilwoman Renee Hardman, the first Black woman to sit on the council, asked those in attendance to continue the struggle that began with months of protests against systematic racism last summer.