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Jan 31, 2022 · Ever since Elzie left Campaign Zero, the police-reform organization she and Mckesson founded along with Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Samuel Sinyangwe, she has refused to give on-the-record ...
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Jan 31, 2022 · According to Elzie, Packnett Cunningham wanted to introduce her to a man named DeRay Mckesson, also an affiliate of Teach for America. Mckesson had been working in Minneapolis as a schools administrator but came to Ferguson to protest.
On March 4, 2015, Mckesson announced via Twitter that he had quit his job at Minneapolis Public Schools and had moved to St. Louis. [20] In April 2015, Mckesson and fellow activists Johnetta Elzie , Samuel Sinyangwe, and Brittany Packnett launched "Mapping Police Violence", which collected data on people killed by police during 2014. [21]
By that point, DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett, both early participants in the demonstrations that spawned Black Lives Matter, already had a plan to make that slogan a political reality.
Feb 13, 2022 · According to Elzie, Packnett Cunningham wanted to introduce her to a man named DeRay Mckesson, also an affiliate of Teach for America. Mckesson had been working in Minneapolis as a schools administrator but came to Ferguson to protest.
May 1, 2024 · Leaning into the movement’s roots—online advocacy with the fearlessness to show up in real life—people like DeRay McKesson and Blair Imani, stepped up to the plate. McKesson, along with Brittany Packnett and Samuel Sinyangwe, founded Campaign Zero, a police reform campaign in 2015. In 2014, Imani founded the feminist educational platform ...
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Jul 30, 2018 · Due to his dedication to battling social injustices and racism throughout the United States, DeRay Mckesson has emerged as a key 21st century civil rights activist and educator. His documentation of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri following the unjust murder of Michael Brown in 2014 solidified his role as a leader in the national Black Lives … Read MoreDeRay Mckesson (1985- )
