| Join us next Saturday on the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as we memorialize those lost to the storm, those lost to racial violence, and those we will lose in the future if we don’t act NOW. |
Friend,
For 401 years, Black people have faced perpetual violence in America. Hurricane Katrina may have been the first major climate disaster of the 21st century, and it may have laid bare the consequences of racism in this country, but the struggle itself is centuries long.
Next Friday will be fifteen years since Hurricane Katrina swept through our communities. Fifteen years since Black and poor people were left to die in the streets of the richest country on earth.
This year, especially, in the midst of a Global Pandemic which affects Black Americans with disproportionate devastation, we commemorate the loved ones we lost. We celebrate our resiliency. We demand justice now, and demand material reasons to have hope for a just future.
50 years to the date that Katrina hit land, on August 28th, 1955, Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. Eight years afterwards- also on August 28th—a quarter million people joined the March on Washington, and Dr. King gave his “I have a dream” speech. Our fight now is the continuation of their fight then, and we won’t stop until we win a world that is safe for Black people, a world that is safe from climate devastation, a world that is safe for all of us.
We at Hip Hop Caucus are fighting every day to defund the police, invest in our communities, divest from fossil fuels and invest in a world free from the racially skewed impacts of climate devastation.
We look forward to seeing you next Saturday at 11am CST; noon EST.
Today and every day, we say firmly that BLACK LIVES MATTER as remember those we’ve lost, and all we’ve overcome.
For Future Generations,
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
President & Founder
Hip Hop Caucus
Hip Hop Caucus
1638 R Street, NW #120, Washington, DC 20009
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