"This is a community where pain is often ignored or pushed aside. Often times people are told to get on with life. Forget about it. It's in the past," said Chief Egunwale Amuscan, one of the organizers. "We're going to go into this community and let them know that love is the only thing that's real and we're going to show that love for self is the most important aspect."
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Coverage from KJRH documents the coming-together of the North Tulsa community after the Good Friday shootings that left three residents dead and two wounded, considered the worst crime in the city's modern history.
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Tulsa, Okla. mourns three of its residents after a shooting spree on Good Friday that also left two injured.
After a reported hate incident against a Vietnamese-American student, a Portland, OR community is standing together for safe and inclusive neighborhoods.
On the morning of August 2, 2009, 22-year-old Portland State University student Bao Vuong reported that he was verbally assaulted by four white males in Portland’s Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood. Vuong said the young men shouted racial slurs at him, pelted his car with food, and punched the door of his vehicle while he was stopped at a stop light. Though Vuong gave descriptions of the four men to the police, no arrests have been made. [KATU Story]