Drawing Lessons From Protests, Black Women’s Group Makes Holidays Happier for Foster Kids
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Last Saturday, a group of masked women stood together in the doorway of Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village and cheered as they set another meticulously wrapped box onto the pile of what would quickly become a mountain of gifts for foster children.
Kimberly Bernard and Caroline Gombé had rallied hundreds of people to marches across the city as co-founders of the Black Women’s March — which grew from the Black Lives Matter movement — during the spring and summer protests that shook New York City.