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"Peace Project 5: Reconciliation" set to debut Nov. 14 at the Jordan HIgh School Auditorium will tell a story of the Black American experience through works of its composers, arrangers, poets and authors.
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The outcry came in response to a swastika and what appeared to be SS bolts that police say were graffitied on the statue at Central Long Beach’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park some time before 3:18 p.m. Friday, which is when police were called.
A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Long Beach was vandalized with symbols resembling a swastika and SS bolts. Photo courtesy Antira Joiner.
“We are very aware that the desecration that happened is hateful, disrespectful, it’s disgusting and it should bother every single person in the city,” Mayor Robert Garcia said Tuesday at the beginning of a City Council meeting.