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Higher Ground Urges Residents to Come Out for Annual MLK Day of Service

“This event started as a community garden within the after-school program at Madison Park Academy,” said Higher Ground NDC Deputy Executive Director Khariyyah Shabazz, who is the organizer of the event. “We now consist of 10+ projects and 15+ community partners to make this a success.

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2 years ago

January 14, 2023

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Volunteers from the 2022 MLK Day of Service sponsored by Higher Ground NDC. Photo courtesy of Higher Ground NDC.

By Khariyyah Shabazz

Community clean-up and beautification, tree-planting, mural painting, music, food and Golden State Warriors’ merchandise giveaways will mark the Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corporation’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of service.

All are welcome to come and sign up for free on Eventbrite to be a part of this monumental event on Jan. 16, 2023, from 8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. at 10495 Edes Ave. in Oakland.

MLK service day is when community comes together to provide services on various projects within Oakland’s Sobrante Park and Brookfield neighborhoods. This event is vital to the neighborhoods’ mission to serve and provide valuable resources for all community members.

“Each year our goal is to build awareness of the issues within deep East Oakland. These service days are one of many direct responses from community members as a solution to long standing environmental struggles our communities have been plagued with,” Shabazz said.

This news comes in the wake of recent accomplishments by our small women lead nonprofit that is filled with young, gifted, and Black Oakland natives. Accomplishments of the company are:

Serving as a distance-learning hub for Oakland Unified School District students during the pandemic.
Becoming a key partner implementing the bike enrichment program for Brookfield and Sobrante Park youth as a member of the Transformative Climate Community, a multimillion-dollar project funded by the City of Oakland geared toward increasing health and wellness among young Black and Brown children in the City of Oakland.
Continuing to partner with neighboring organizations to lead service projects throughout the city even through the pandemic of 2020.
Celebrating a 10-year anniversary of providing paid internships for middle- and high school-aged youth through our workforce development program.

To learn more about how to get involved with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of service please go to www.highergroundndc.com.

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.