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Precipitated by the police killing of George Floyd May 25, 2020, large-scale protests took place in cities across the nation May 29, and continued in subsequent weeks.
Generocity‘s coverage included news, think pieces and reflections on this pivotal moment in U.S. history.
Generocity Coverage (29 posts)
- One year after George Floyd’s murder, the words from these stories still resonate
- City says it’s making progress on protest-driven policy changes
- Gauging the effectiveness of protests
- Let what you’ve experienced in the months after the uprising enrich your ‘RealLIST Connectors’ nominations
- Uprising in Philadelphia: A to-do list for the next six months
- Decades of failed reforms allow continued police brutality and racism
- Hip-hop is the soundtrack to BLM protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues
- Opinion: Let’s take these immediate steps to move from policing to community safety
- The time is now to break all the rules and reshape the nonprofit sector
- A short history of Black women and police violence
- Philanthropy needs a new endgame: The liberation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities in America
- How to protest during a pandemic and keep everyone safe from coronavirus
- #OwnVoices: 12 impactful quotes from Black nonprofit leaders in Philly
- Candace McKinley: Yes, #DefundthePolice. But also #FreeThemAll and #AbolishPrisons
- What can protests accomplish?
- Vanessa Briggs: ‘Upstream solutions are key to authentic engagement of our communities’
- ‘What I want as an African-American woman is to be heard, be seen and be counted’
- ‘If you think the protests that are happening now are just about convicting a cop, you’re missing the boat’
- ‘It’s overwhelming to articulate my feelings about being a Black man in this country’
- These 8 Philly orgs that support Black communities have made public pledges, organized cleanups and called for action
- In a public statement, Urban League proposes four areas of focus for police reform
- Pedagogy amid pandemic and protest
- Resource list: Bail funds for protesters
- Here are 15 Black nonprofit and community voices to listen to in Philadelphia
- What a police-sanctioned mob in Fishtown says about systemic racism
- As protests and unrest grip the nation, how should Philly nonprofits respond?
- Nonprofit AF: Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the ‘white moderate’ that Dr. King warned us about?
- To white organizational leaders, silence is violence: Here’s what you should do now
- Author of ‘Bearing Witness While Black’ calls for us to stop viewing footage of Black people dying so casually
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