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West Side community leaders, elected officials and relatives who’ve lost loved ones rallied at the Green Line Central station Saturday before marching to Laramie and Jackson, where two men were killed earlier this month on the steps of Friendship Baptist Church.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin urges the social media giant to hire West Siders to monitor images and videos posted.
Family and faith leaders continue to push for community’s help in solving the murder of Steinmetz High School freshman Demetrius Griffin Jr.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin has organized Saturday’s event at By the Hand. The public is also invited Thursday, July 7th to a community meeting sponsored by the Greater Austin Independent Political Organization.
State Rep. La Shawn Ford and The Voice newspaper are co-sponsoring the event, which includes free legal advice.
West side residents will meet at various corners in Austin at 6 p.m. tonight and every other Wednesday in June and July to take a stand against violence.
Dozens of police officers flooded the West Side Tuesday during a high-speed chase that ended in the 200 block of North Central Avenue.
The past continues to affect African-Americans today, writes columnist John W. Fountain III.
The organization asks who will mourn for the hundreds of people killed in the city in 2012.
One gunman and a getaway driver were charged with first-degree murder, but police are still searching for a second gunman and another suspect.