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Community Building Initiative

Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey

Hoops for Justice: In Memory of Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey

A great deal of important work is being done at a truly grassroots level; the Community Building Initiative seeks out these organizers. We facilitate by bringing them together to share their experiences, to network as they proceed with their activities, and to gain insight that they are not alone.

Community Building Conference

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.

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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.

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Justice for Kyam Livingston

Justice for Kyam Livingston

Our Campaign for Justice for Michael Brown

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

Justice for Kyam Livingston

Justice for Dykim Brown

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 Kyam Livingston

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. 

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