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Warren, city of Rochester sued over curfew

Stanley Martin, a lead organizer with Free the People Roc, an activist group that’s recently been at the center of Rochester’s Black Lives Matter...
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Fri, 07/24/2020 - 1:20pm
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Rochester health care union workers join national #StrikeforBlackLives

Members of the 1199 SEIU health care workers union picketed outside of the Pearl Nursing Center on Portland Avenue on Monday as part of a national...
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Mon, 07/20/2020 - 1:34pm
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Hundreds protest on I-490 Sunday, organizers plan to do it again Friday afternoon

It was raining as hundreds of people poured off of the Frederick Douglass Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge Sunday. This Black Lives Matter protest was...
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Mon, 07/20/2020 - 6:36am
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Black Arts, and feeling the bite of change

David Shakes knows what change looks like, and sounds like, and feels like. He finds it in writers such as James Baldwin, whose words have shadowed us...
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Wed, 07/15/2020 - 6:26am
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Coalition for Black Lives wants funding directed to grassroots programs

Shaq Payne was 17 when he got involved with Slam High, a slam poetry program for Rochester youth run by future Avenue Blackbox Theater founder Reenah...
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Mon, 07/13/2020 - 1:10pm
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Defunding the Rochester police discussed at community forum

Rev. Lewis Stewart and the United Christian Leadership Ministry were joined by more than a dozen community leaders for a solutions-focused discussion on...
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Fri, 07/10/2020 - 3:35am
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Connections: Discussing police reform with members of United Christian Leadership Ministry

We’re joined by members of the United Christian Leadership Ministry to discuss police reform in America. The ministry was founded in 2010; since then,...
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Tue, 06/30/2020 - 10:16am
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Connections: Rochester City Council members discuss police reform

Last week, Rochester City Council passed the city budget, and the subject of defunding police was a hot button issue. We're joined by members of Council...
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Fri, 06/26/2020 - 10:12am
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Should the Nathaniel Rochester statue be cleaned?

The Nathaniel Rochester statue on South Avenue was defaced about a week ago, and a group in the South Wedge neighborhood is grappling with what to do...
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Wed, 06/24/2020 - 11:26am
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The arts, the writing on the walls and the writing on the streets

" Miss Juneteenth " is one of the current virtual offerings at The Little Theatre, part of the Black Cinema Series . It's about a single mom, Turquoise...
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Wed, 06/24/2020 - 7:28am
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