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Feb 11, 2023 · Cameron Goodnight. Delaware News Journal. 0:00. 1:16. Since 2011, Stop the Violence Prayer Chain, a youth-focused violence prevention organization, has led a peaceful march during Black History...
Nov 22, 2023 · Neil Hockstein. Special to the USA TODAY Network. 0:00. 1:06. On Nov. 16, the City Council of Wilmington passed Resolution #23-065, which requested the Delaware federal delegation support H....
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In 1968, Wilmington, Delaware was one of many cities that experienced civil unrest after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Blacks in Wilmington showed anger and frustration over racial differences in the quality of life, police misconduct and the state of race relations. For several days, groups of young Blacks engaged in civil unrest.
Every first Friday at 5:30 p.m., people walk prayerfully through downtown Wilmington, Delaware as a witness to hope for justice and peace. We begin at SsAM, the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, 8th and Shipley.
Jan 16, 2023 · Rachel Sawicki. / Delaware Public Media. Peace marchers made signs for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Nearly 300 people took to the streets of Wilmington Monday morning and afternoon, first with garbage bags in hand picking up trash, and later as a group for a peace march.
Aug 22, 2023 · According to newspaper reports, 15,000 people attended the Big Quarterly that August weekend, the largest gathering in many years, with an estimated 3,000 attending religious services at Mother African for prayers for “peace among the nations of the earth,” which days later would erupt into the most destructive war the world had ever known.
Oct 28, 2022 · Firearm violence within Delaware has been concentrated in the City of Wilmington and rates disproportionately affect populations, with the highest disparity and inequity in mortality among young Black men.
