Spring 2020 will also be remembered for the police killing of another Black Minneapolis man George Lloyd which launched a culture of protest throughout the nation.
Last week, NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law an aggressive police reform measures, including a ban on chokeholds, transparency of police disciplinary records; and giving the NYS Attorney General special prosecutor power to investigate incidents of unarmed people killed by police.
Ferguson made national headlines in 2014 when African American teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white policeman.
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Look at Spike Lee’s new Netflix film on Viet Nam, “Da 5 Bloods” about four African American Viet Nam veterans who return to Viet Name looking for the remains of their fallen commander
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General Charles Q. Brown was confirmed by the US Senate to be the next Air Force Chief of Staff making him the first African Ameri- can of military service as the Pentagon and the country countenances a multiplicity of racial issue.
Caribbean American Heritage Month salute to Grace Blake, filmmaker, Sharon Lopez, thought leader and event planner; Derrick Wallace, Wadleigh Scholars Program; Dr. David R. Williams, Harvard University sociologist
Cancerian: Dr. Betty Holmes Anthony, Will Anthony, Joe Bethune, Stuart Bosley, Valerie Bradley, Dr. Bill Cosby, Cecilia Davidson, Assemblymember Inez Dickens; NYC’s first and only Black Mayor David Dinkins; Missy Elliott; Fantasia; Stanley Gleaton, Danny Glover, Ernie Green; Kevin Hart; cousin Patricia Jackson; Sandy Livingston; Harriet Michel; Robert Hamilton; Alyah Horsford Sidberry, 50, Cove Lounge; Kendall Sidberry; Cheryl Hill; Desa Horsford and twins Lillian and Karen Horsford; Aubrie Jacobs; Barbara Montgomery; Richard Roundtree; Judge Sonia Sotomeyer; Barbara Sullivan; Mike Tyson, Ramona Wraggs Wall, Colloquium Depot; Goldie Watkins; Akia Webster; Sa- brina Williams; Wendy Williams; and family patriarch Ricky Wingate.