Tag: #blm

Malcolm X Boulevard

Some more images from along the route of the Black Lives Matter, Justice for George Floyd march last Saturday discussed in my last few posts. Click any image to see them all enlarged.

Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, New York

Calling for Change

Last Saturday we joined a larger, longer march from 135th Street and St Nicholas Avenue across 135th Street and down Malcolm X Blvd, twisting a little bit to wind up at Frederick Douglass Circle. At the opening rally we heard spine-chilling stories from a couple of mothers of their experiences: one had called for help for her sick son only to see the responding police kill him; another was the mother of one of the Central Park Five who was incarcerated at 15 for 7 years for the rape of the Central Park jogger and was released as a registered sex offender. The horrors her family endured for decades before the actual perpetrator came forward are unimaginable. (Click any image to see them all enlarged.)

Mothers’ address
W 135th Street
The police consider…
… and protect the station
Sergio Larrain moment?
MLK Jr Blvd
West 110th Street
Frederick Douglass Circle

Alliance

Friday we joined a march for white allies to learn to be better allies, led by professor La’Tesha Sampson from the Frederick Douglass statue at 110th Street up to the Harriet Tubman statue on 121st Street in Harlem

Frederick Douglass Circle, New York
121st St and Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York
122nd St and Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York

Vigil for George Floyd

Carl Schurz Park, New York

We’ve been following @justiceforgeorgenyc on Instagram, which notifies us of all the rallies going on every day. This is a nightly vigil by the Upper East Side grouping at Carl Shurz Park which sometimes marches to Gracie Mansion (but didn’t the evening we were there).