Charly "Africa" Keunang Memorial March in Skid Row - Death by Cops

Police brutality, Police-involved shootings

Three police officers in Los Angeles, California, were legally justified and acting in self-defense when they fatally shot a homeless man, Charly Leundeu Keunang, in March 2015, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has determined. 

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Sergeant Chand Syed and Officers Francisco Martinez and Daniel Torres "acted lawfully in self-defense and in defense of others" when they shot and killed Keunang, 43, on March 1, 2015

Join us with Pete White of Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) for this epic Memorial March two years day of his murder. Charly "Africa" Keunang, known as "Africa" among friends, died after being shot multiple times by LAPD officers a  rookie police officer was involved in the murder. March 1. 2015.

                                                                  Death by Cops

The murder was caught on video by the homeless who were there and there was no gun as seen in this presentation. the family of a homeless man who was fatally shot by LAPD officers on Skid Row filed a $20 million lawsuit against the department.

 

 

 The family of a homeless man who was fatally shot by LAPD officers on Skid Row filed a $20 million lawsuit against the department.

Caught on Camera Homeless Man Murdered

Hippie Kitchen Photo Project-Skid Row's Catholic Workers

                                              The Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen 

aka "Hippie Kitchen Gallery Project

 

Jeff Dietrich Attending the Africa's Memorial March in Skid Row March 1, 2017
Catholic Agitator by Jeff Dietrich 

Catherine Morris & Mother Teresa on 6th Street in Skid Row 1977

 The Dorthy Day Catholic Worker Founder

 

 Ammon Hennacy House of Hospitality

632 North Brittania St.

 

 

Catherine Morris

 821 East 6th Street & Gladys Av 90021 Heart of Skid Row

 

Jeff Dietrich

Dorthy Day

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Skid Row's Gladys Park meets

Skid Row's Gladys Park meets 

 The National Recreational Parks Association

 

National Recreational Parks Association

Skid Row's Gladys Park

 

General Jeff Community Activist 

 

 

Evolution of The Revolution with Lynn Rossi & Sherita Herring

Interview with Lynn Rossi of Surreal Box Cinema and Sherita Herring at 

California African American Museum in Exposition Park.

Evolution of the Revolution is an immersive, multi-media installation created by Surreal Box Cinema, an artistic duo formed by Lynn Rossi (photographer/set designer) and Nichelle Evans (set designer/conceptual artist). Evolution of the Revolution presents a surreal photographic journey that explores the African American revolutionary path, from the Trans-Atlantic Middle Passage to the present day political arena, including pivotal moments such as the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement. Exhibit runs from now until June 23re 2016

Echoes of Blackness - Robert Lee Johnson - COMPTON Images

Blazology

Echoes of Blackness deals with who we are as a people by telling our own stories in living black Color from the black panthers to The Skid Row Positive Movement to masterful musicians and artists all telling the story of the Black Experience Through Our Eyes email: echoesofblackness@outlook.com
Tonight’s Special Guest here in Skid Row Studios:

Author, Historian, Former Black Panther Member, Lecturer, Social Activist Robert Lee Johnson has been chairman of the projects committee of the History Council at the California African American Museum. He was co-coordinator of the Compton branch of the Black Panther Party and a founding member of the Coalition Against Police Abuse. Tonight Robert takes on the history of Compton California form 1869 to about the 1970’s through his book entitled “Images of America-Compton”.

Get Robert's Book on Amazon

Skid Row Studios 

Robert Lee Johnson 

Compton Blvd.

The Black Movement

Black Panther Artshare LA Exhibition 

Echoes of Blackness by Michael Blaze - Storyteller Michael D. McCarty

Echoes of Blackness

Echoes of Blackness deals with who we are as a people by telling our own stories in living black Color from the black panthers to The Skid Row Positive Movement to masterful musicians and artists all telling the story of the Black Experience Through Our Eyes email: echoesofblackness@outlook.com

Tonight’s Special Guest are Storyteller Michael D. McCarty (Have Mouth Will Use it) and Melvin Ishmael Johnson of The Qumran Report also seen on Skid Row Studios programming. Tonight we’ll learn what it is to become a professional Storyteller.

                                   Professional Storyteller Michael D. McCarty 

                                                     www.havemouthwillrunit.com

                              Echoes of Blackness pod-cast by Michael Blaze on Storytelling

Joining us on this show is Melvin Ishmael Johnson of The Qumran Report 

                    on these same stations @  www.skidrowstudios.com 

  

If you have a story and would like to be a guest contact Michael Blaze for upcoming shows: echoesofblackness@outlook.com. Please check Skid Row Studios Listing For Our Next Presentation.

Blaze-Out

GETTY-BAILA ROUND TABLE-NOVEMBER 4TH 2014

GETTY-BAILA ROUND TABLE- NOVEMBER 4TH 2014

GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (GRI)