The city council will appoint the five additional members of the committee, and those seven will select two more members, bringing the voting body to nine.
Here are three ways Black Lives Matter protests changed America | PennLive Editorial
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
One year after the Black Lives Matter protests: what did they achieve? A year after people in Pennsylvania and all over the country took to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd, has anything changed?
Those are the questions PennLive posed to activists and law enforcement officials last week. And the answer was a resounding yes.
Protesters such as political activist Shavonnia Corbin-Johnson and Kevin Maxson, with Voice for the Voiceless, say the protests mattered, and those who shouted against racism in town squares should be proud of what they achieved. We agree. And what may be surprising, so do officials such as Harrisburg Police Commissioner Thomas C. Carter, Carlisle Mayor Tim Scott and Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo. They all shared their thoughts last week on PennLive’s “Black Lives Matter: One Year Later” webinar that was broadcast li
Updated: 11:38 PM EDT April 20, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. The Capitol steps remained empty hours after the guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in stark contrast to the thousands of protesters who filled the steps last summer after the death of George Floyd.
“America got the opportunity to see what it is to be Black in America on TV one time. I don’t know if many of them are going to get it, but a lot of us have seen it,” said Kevin Maxson, founder of Voices 4 the Voiceless and organizer of several Black Lives Matter protests in Harrisburg last year. “It’s like going that roller coaster the first time, that feeling. We’ve seen it and we understood it and we understand it every day we walk out of our homes.”