FBI Director James Comey spoke last week at Georgetown University about race relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve, following the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in Staten Island, along with ongoing protests throughout the country and the killings of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
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February 17, 2015 - 12:49pm
February 12, 2015 - 1:30pm
Thousands gathered for a vigil on Tuesday, after three local Muslim students were killed. Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her younger sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were killed in the couple’s apartment in Chapel Hill, according to news reports.
February 12, 2015 - 10:10am
Britt Hart, a production intern for Not In Our Town, covered a recent event at Laney College that brought together community and police after a wave of protests in Oakland, CA following no indictment decisions in two fatal police officer killings of unarmed black men, including the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
February 10, 2015 - 12:45pm
If we’re looking for models for community response to hate, we might start with Richard Thomas’s own high school. After their fellow student was arrested, the Oakland High School community came together to break the silence and open up conversations within their classrooms.* They collected funds for Fleischman to help with medical costs and reached out to the family. Students participated with the larger community in a “Rainbow March” that proceeded along the bus route. They brought together Thomas’ friends in a restorative circle to listen to their feelings.
February 9, 2015 - 4:00pm
Rosa Feijoo was born in Mexico City. In 1993, her eldest son, José, died of AIDS and in 1997 she started giving lectures on the prevention of HIV. In 2003 she published her first book, AIDS: A Mother's Testimony, and later on a second book, HIV/AIDS, Profound Cases: Manifestation of a Diseased Society. She now coordinates support groups for parents and friends of lesbians and gays in Mexico, and has been engaged in giving workshops for the prevention of homophobic bullying for the Secretary of Education of the State. In 2011 she was the representative of Mexico to the UNESCO meeting on Prevention of Homophobic Bullying in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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