Youth reach dead end when trying to track monies coming to area youth after Ferguson Uprising.
Youth reach dead end when trying to track monies coming to area youth after Ferguson Uprising.
In the wake of the SWAT murder of Vinny Hammett, SLPD murder of Kenneth “Kiwi” Herring, the Stockley acquittal and the surveillance plans for the STL, this is a must-see documentary to inform our next steps.
This is a space to share our pain and hopes as well as strategies to address the anti-Black city we live in.
In St. Louis, the Organization for Black Struggle has focused on black political empowerment for the last 27 years. Earlier this year, they held a deep canvassing training and built a team to go out into neighborhoods and start conversations.
In August 1963 community members and leaders protested outside of the Jefferson Bank headquarters to shine a light on a bank that refused to hire Blacks for white collar jobs. That turned out to be one of the largest civil disobedience protests in the region. Nineteen folks spent from 60 days to a year behind bars to pressure the bank into hiring Blacks.
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