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Youth organizers at the front of Friday’s march.
The local youth who led the city’s 5,000-person march for racial justice came prepared — not just with songs, cheers, and posters, but also with specific, explicitly political demands for how to end police brutality.
Such a goal, they said, must be accomplished through “the complete abolition of policing as we know it.”
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Jun 6, 2020 10:32 am
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The following photos were taken Friday afternoon during the 5,000-person police abolition march from the Green to police headquarters at 1 Union Ave. Click here for a full story on the protest march.
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Jun 5, 2020 5:40 pm
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Kharisma Redding in crowd outside police HQ: “This is every black princess’s dream come true.”
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New Haven teens led the way as thousands poured into the streets of New Haven to demand racial justice, an end to police violence, and a move from funding cops to funding schools and communities.
Integrated Wellness Group CEO Maysa Akbar moderated Wednesday’s virtual discussion.
Covid-19 and racism are twin viruses affecting New Haveners’ mental health, according to three experts brought together as virtual panelists by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
(Updated) — The Citywide Youth Coalition has two new demands for how to decrease police presence in schools and increase funding for the Board of Ed: replace all school resource officers with counselors, and move over $30 million from the city police budget to the budget for the public school system.
Chief Reyes (center) talking with protesters outside 1 Union Ave. Below: Top brass taking a knee.
Over 60 protesters converged on police headquarters Wednesday for the second time in four days.
This time, they were greeted not by officers in riot gear, but rather by top brass who kneeled in support of their anti-brutality message — and then spoke with them about how to work together to build a more community-accountable force.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:34 am
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Mayor steps up to crowd at police headquarters.
(Updated) A day of peaceful protest by 1,000 anti-brutality marchers evolved into a smaller but intense nighttime standoff at police headquarters, in which bottles and pepper spray flew and the mayor faced the crowd and was shouted down.
Tension built as the midnight hour arrived — and last-minute moves on both sides would determine whether New Haven would join other cities in seeing protest arrests made on Sunday.
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May 31, 2020 11:35 pm
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A small group of protesters assembled on the New Haven Green on Sunday.
As Sunday’s protest rally against police brutality continued at the New Haven Police Department headquarters Sunday afternoon, a group of college students and an “outlaw” found their own ways to address racism in a far smaller gathering on the New Haven Green.
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May 31, 2020 2:43 pm
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Black Lives Matters marchers occupy southbound I-95 lanes. Below: Ala Ochumare keeps protest on course.
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Police, protesters at 1 Union Ave. after bottles were thrown at cops, who pepper sprayed …
…onto such protesters as Derek Cote.
One thousand Black Lives Matter protesters and their allies marched from Broadway to the Green — and then on to the highway, with police standing back.
No one got arrested. No one got hurt. Until, later at the police station, some protesters started throwing bottles at the cops. Others tried to enter the building, and cops pepper sprayed them to deter them.
Lena Olive Reese with Planned Parenthood’s Gretchen Raffa …
.. and the crowd on the Green Monday.
They’re angry. Some of them have been sexually abused. And they’re done being silent about it.
Close to 100 people brought that message to the lower Green Monday afternoon as part of a national day of action to protest the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the highest court in the land and to stand with the women accusing him of sexual assault. A separate sit-in took place at Yale Law School, where a U.S. senator (and alum) dropped by to offer support.
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May 11, 2018 5:12 pm
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Ryan: Are you ready to become “We the people”?
Veteran White House Correspondent April Ryan didn’t mince words with New Haven, or the Greater New Haven branch of the NAACP. She wanted to know if they are ready.
Ready to be “We the people,” ready to stand up for ” a more perfect union.”
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Crump delivers a luncheon address Saturday.
A civil rights attorney who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and most recently Stephon Clark — all unarmed black men killed in most cases by police officers — told New Haveners that they’re obligated to fight injustice.
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Newsome at Battell Wednesday: Human rights is question of our time.
When activist Bree Newsome climbed into the history books by scaling a flagpole on the South Carolina statehouse grounds and removing the Confederate flag, many people assumed that one very fed up black woman had taken spontaneous action.
New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter didn’t play to the crowd at Saturday’s Women’s March in Hartford. She instead challenged the crowd — to examine its own actions toward black women along with Donald Trump’s actions.
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Jun 5, 2017 1:43 pm
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Tour attendees first arrive at Prince Hall Masonic Temple, formerly the city’s first African-American school.
When students walked through the doors at the old Winchester Community School, they were welcomed by teachers who knew them — their strengths, their challenges, and their aspirations — Barbara Tinney recalled, telling her old neighborhood’s story the way her neighbors would remember it.
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May 17, 2017 12:29 pm
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Michael Jefferson at Tuesday night’s presentation.
The poster is meant to shock and spark conversation, and it might be coming to a barbershop near you.
The poster features a hooded Ku Klux Klansman with the words “Die Nigger!” stamped across his forehead, white men at a lynching and the mutilated face of Emmett Till at the top. The bottom half of the poster similarly features a masked man. But this man is black.
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Jan 4, 2017 9:24 am
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Participants brainstormed about how to achieve women’s equality.
Fighting back in 2017 requires crafting a “black agenda” or an “American agenda” — two different approaches suggested in a passionate community discussion held Tuesday night in Newhallville.
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Jul 18, 2016 7:31 am
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Busch Wright at confab: No limits on dreams.
Deborah Busch Wright was playing the role of fairy godmother, her pixie stick doubling as wand and conveyor of fairy dust. If money were not a barrier, she asked the room full of girls and a smattering of women, what would you wish to do?
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy Friday called for his colleagues in D.C. to overcome partisanship in responding to the latest wave of deadly violence by and against police.
