LEN RAGOZIN FOUNDATION: Advancing Progressive Ideas and Actions
Community organizing
Community Building National Conference
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
In 2016, our Community Building Initiative Conference launched a larger conference reaching out through participants we have me over the past years. Our Initiative are now our conference organizers! July, 2023 will see a national event in New York
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
An LRF Supported Program in memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey, two young Black people murdered by the NYPD in Brooklyn in two separate shootings. We support an annual basketball tournament in the Brooklyn community where they died aimed at building solidarity and resistance among young people.
Our Campaign for Justice for Michael Brown
Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey
Our Campaign for Justice for Michael Brown
We provided a grant sending dozens of college students and professors to Ferguson, MO in solidarity with the protests there against the racist shooting of Michael Brown.
RODNEY SPIVEY BROTHERS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
RODNEY SPIVEY BROTHERS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Our Campaign for Justice for Michael Brown
On June 1, 2021, Newark undercover plainclothes police attacked four young Black men–the Rodwell Spivey brothers– in front of their home in the South Ward of Newark, NJ. According to police complaint, the cops stopped the Rodwell Spivey brothers because they were “wearing white t-shirts and dreads”--clearly racially profiling and targeting them because they were Black. LRF established and help fund the Legal Defense fund to fight all charges against them.
Justice for Kyam Livingston
RODNEY SPIVEY BROTHERS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Justice for Kyam Livingston
Kyam Decol Livingston died in a police holding cell in Brooklyn's central bookings jail. She had been arrested on a minor charge, had never been formally charged, had never gone before a judge and was never convicted of a crime. She was murdered by a criminal "justice" system that believes her life, like many others, didn't matter. This is one case, however, that they couldn't cover up. LRF funded the Kyam Livingston Memorial Scholarship Fund For Social Justice.
Puerto Rico Brigade
RODNEY SPIVEY BROTHERS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Justice for Kyam Livingston
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, we sent 20 people, faculty members and their students, to Puerto Rico to conduct advocacy and volunteer work in solidarity with Puerto Rican workers and friends. On the island, unions and local community groups are engaged in activities to address the educational and residential crisis in Puerto Rico. Our group worked alongside several of these groups,
Justice for Dykim Brown
Justice for Dykim Brown
Justice for Dykim Brown
An LRF Supported Program that raised money for the defense of Dykim Brown, a young black man in Virginia falsely charged with first-degree murder. With the efforts of many, the charges were dismissed.