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By Visvajit Sriramrajan
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, which has stood in front of Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Student Center for more than 20 years, has been relocated to Emily Lowe …
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7/7/20
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It was not as silent as advertised and the roughly 20 participants stood for more than 90 minutes, however what was billed on Instagram as a silent sit-in with Black Lives Matter-themed signs was peaceful along Broadway near Johnson Place where Hewlett meets Woodmere on Sunday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/5/20
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As posted on the justiceforgeorgeli Instagram account there is expected to be a silent sit-in today, July 5 at 3p.m. outside the Hewlett-Woodmere School District's Woodmere Education Center at 1 Johnson Place in Woodmere.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/5/20
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POCatHewlett, with POC standing for people of color, has begun adding its voice to the growing sentiment that there must be an end to racial inequality. Calling themselves a team and spearheaded by two young women, POCatHewlett has a petition on actionnetwork.org and created a list of demands that they would like the Hewlett-Woodmere School District and Board of Education to address.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/1/20
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Justice for George Floyd came swiftly in New York. During two weeks of intense protests at hundreds of locales across the state . . .
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6/19/20
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Nassau County wound down a whirlwind week of Black Lives Matter protests through local neighborhoods last week that were, with one exception, peaceful and uplifting. Tens of thousands marched . . .
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6/12/20
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What was expected to be a small protest involving perhaps 50 people swelled to a crowd of nearly 400 last Sunday as children, adults, Jews and non-Jews, blacks, whites and Latinos marched from Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst to Lawrence and back to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and their opposition to racism, chanting “No justice, no peace!” and “Black lives matter!”
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/10/20
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Roughly 100 people gathered in the parking lot of the Hewlett Long Island Rail Road station to stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement for a peaceful candlelight vigil that …
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By Matthew Ferremi
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6/9/20
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What was expected to be a small protest of possibly 50 people swelled to nearly 400 as children, adults, Jews, non-Jew, blacks, whites and Latinos marched from Andrew J. Paris Cedarhurst Park in Cedarhurst and back on Sunday to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, opposition to racism in any form and chanted the slogans “No Justice, No Peace” and “Black Lives Matter.”
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/7/20
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For a third straight night, Black Lives Matter demonstrators convened in Merrick and Bellmore to protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the systemic racism that is …
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By Scott Brinton
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6/4/20
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