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New Haven’s top governing body adopted a platform of dozens of recommendations to address systemic racism in the city.
The city’s Board of Aldermen declared racism a public health crisis after the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota last summer.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. is a New Haven alderman.
“It literally took hundreds of years to get us to this point to undo systematic racism within our government and city. And while it certainly won’t take us that long to undo it, we want to ensure that we are taking the initial right steps to address racism as a public health issue head-on,” Brackeen said.