Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire will hold its closing Juneteenth celebratory event on Saturday, June 19 at 3 p.m. at the African Burying Ground in Portsmouth with a special program Dance of the Ancestors: Ritual, Chants, Drumming, and Movement. The event is free and open to the public.
Fashioned after a traditional West African Egungun ritual and live streaming from the Portsmouth African Burying Ground, the event features chants and dance by Ifa priest Chief Wande Abimbola and Chief Oscar Mokeme from the Nmuo Society. The Chiefs will be accompanied by drumming from the Akwaaba Ensemble, to invoke and honor ancestral spirits and to offer healing.
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Treating violence as systemic and a public health issue
Monday s panelists largely agreed about the need to better understand the systemic problems that are fueling violent crime in Louisville and to implement violence prevention programs that approach rising crime as a matter of public health. We know that from a public health perspective that there are multiple levels of influence when we re talking about violence, Williams said. It s not just the individual behavior, but there are multiple factors that influence that individual s behavior … We have to deploy strategies that are prevention oriented, that are intervention oriented, that have an eye on organizational and developmental change.
May 17, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 17, 2021) – Dr. Monique Williams, director of the city’s Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN), spoke today to Metro Council, outlining many of the ways that Mayor Greg Fischer’s FY22 budget would enhance the Department’s role in helping create a safer Louisville.
Mayor Fischer’s proposed FY22 budget would invest $4.5 million in OSHN to advance his whole-of-government approach to violence reduction. This investment includes expansion of the Pivot to Peace initiative – evidence-based gun violence reduction strategies, including the existing hospital-based partnership, as well as an outreach system, clergy response team, and supports for the Gun Violence Intervention program. With the hospital-based initiative alone, the city has reduced injury recidivism among participants by 95 percent.
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