“Well, the news would suggest while some things have changed, others have remained the same,” said Patricia Reid-Merritt, PhD., a professor of Africana studies and social work at Stockton University and an activist.
“Police shootings in the Black community continued to occur; systemic racism has a stranglehold on the nation; and woke folks are struggling to hold conversations, workshops and training sessions on race/racism/diversity and inclusion.”
Reid-Merritt, a Philadelphia native, is also the founder and artistic director of Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre, Inc., a community-based cultural and performing arts organization founded in Willingboro nearly 50 years ago, and now based in Mount Laurel.
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Yolanda Yonnie Deaver, a Camden businesswoman who marched in protest after George Floyd s death, on Tuesday celebrated three guilty verdicts against his accused killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. I felt overwhelmed with joy, Deaver said as she described seeing the verdicts being announced on national television. My heart kind of skipped a beat a little bit.
Deaver last year organized a protest march to Camden s Police Administration Building, a walk that was joined by Camden s then-police chief and other officers.
On Tuesday, she still saw the wrong that took Floyd s life, but added the trial s outcome offered hope that needed changes could occur.