RIVERVIEW, N.B. The images are disturbing in a video that appears to show two young females being repeatedly assaulted by a group of girls in Riverview, New Brunswick. The video is especially hard to watch for Erica Perry, the mother of one of the girls that was attacked last Friday in Riverview. “My daughter showed me and I couldn’t continue watching it,” says Perry. “It was so heart wrenching, knowing that I couldn’t be there to help her.” Perry says her 12-year-old daughter and a friend were on their way to a park near Riverview High School, when they were randomly attacked by a group of girls.
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Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly
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Mike Floss spins music at a Black Nashville Assembly meeting. The group is trying to organize people to be more engaged politically. Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly
Some organizers in Nashville, Tenn., are working to strengthen local Black political power.
Last summer, the city s majority Democratic council rejected more than seven hours of pleas to decrease police funding. Every politician in Nashville is supposedly progressive yet we have a hard time getting our points of view even heard, organizer Theeda Murphy says.
The Black Nashville Assembly wants to create an agenda that ensures the government doesn t create barriers for Black people s progress. They re riding a momentum sparked by Georgia flipping blue and using a legacy of strategies from people-driven movements.