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Adirondack Diversity Initiative announces community policing program

Adirondack Diversity Initiative organizes free police training

Adirondack Diversity Initiative seeks more funding for agenda

Adirondack Diversity Initiative seeks more funding for agenda Gwendolyn Craig Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Nicole Hylton-Patterson began work in December as director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. (Photo courtesy Adirondack North Country Association)Adirondack North Country AssociationShow MoreShow Less 2of3Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson poses for a photo in her Saranac Lake, N..Y., office on Dec. 10, 2019. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports that Hylton-Patterson is moving out of Saranac Lake, citing racist graffiti on a railroad bridge that made her feel unsafe. She moved to Saranac Lake from the Bronx borough of New York in December 2019, to take the new position of director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, coalition of groups seeking to make the Adirondacks more welcoming and inclusive to all New Yorkers.Griffin Kelly/APShow MoreShow Less

Plattsburgh's Martin Luther King Celebration Goes Virtual

3:18 The commemoration in Plattsburgh honoring Dr. Martin Luther King is normally held at the SUNY Plattsburgh Newman Center.  But this year due to COVID-19 organizers had to find a different way to hold the event, turning to the local public television station to create an hour-long virtual program. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration organizers couldn’t find an available site where the Plattsburgh community could gather that was adequately safe under COVID-19 guidelines.  Committee member Maxine Perry says they decided to do a virtual celebration of King’s legacy.  “We feel it’s important for the community to witness some of the things that are going on today that sort of relate to what’s gone on in the past. And we hope that it will enlighten the community.”

How Black Lives Matter brought the conversation of race and racism to the North Country

Dec 30, 2020 In addition to the coronavirus, 2020 will be remembered for nationwide protests for civil rights and racial justice not seen in this country in more than half a century. They were sparked in late May when a video went viral of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a Black man named George Floyd. For nearly nine minutes the police officer is seen placing pressure on Floyd’s neck as he calls out in distress before he is killed. Millions of people flooded the streets of Minneapolis, New York, Portland, and many other cities, calling for a reckoning over systemic racism in policing and across American society.