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Sonoran Preservation Works holds vigil for drug overdose victims PHOENIX – The Arizona advocacy group Sonoran Preservation Works commemorated International Overdose Awareness Day 2023 on Aug. 31, with a vigil at the Desert West Community Center in Phoenix. The group was founded in 2010 by people who had used drugs and wanted to help others […]
A day of remembrance on the third anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd ended with a candlelight vigil Thursday night in Minneapolis at the corner of 38th and Chicago — George Floyd Square. A crowd gathered at the square and also marched to the nearby Say Their Names Cemetery, where headstones display the […]
Hundreds gathered in Southeast D.C. Sunday night demanding justice in the death of Alaunte Scott, the 22-year-old shot and killed by two U.S. marshals. Authorities said Scott pulled out a gun before he was shot on Feb. 28 in the 4300 Block of 3rd Street SE as they . . .
As the nation — and the world — reels following the public release of the Memphis Police Department’s shockingly brutal body camera footage showing five officers savagely beating Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries, rallies and vigils have been held across the country. Politicians, law enforcement officials, police unions and protesters are condemning […]
The mourners in Shanghai lit candles and placed flowers. Someone scrawled Urumqi, 11.24, Rest in Peace in red on cardboard referring to the deadly apartment fire in China’s western city of Urumqi that sparked anger over perceptions the country’s strict COVID-19 measures played a role in the disaster. What started as a […]
Black pastors group holds vigil for Walmart shooting victims Idaho Press Source link
Black pastors group holds vigil for Walmart shooting victims The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Source link
By Hub staff report / Published Sept 29, 2022 Members of the Iranian community at Johns Hopkins hosted a vigil of remembrance Tuesday for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who died in police custody in Tehran earlier this month. According to published news reports, Amini had been detained and held by Iran’s “morality […]
Hong Kong authorities deployed a large number of police personnel on Saturday to enforce a ban on any vigil to commemorate the Tianenman Square Massacre that took place in Chinese capital Beijing on 3-4 June 1989 in which thousands of civilians were killed by Chinese soldiers. The vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was disallowed […]