A summer of rallies will culminate this Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, with a “Liberation Homecoming” in Morris Township and Morris Township, said Black Lives Matter Morristown founder T’Anna Kimbrough.
Organized with the Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center, the event tentatively will start at 3 pm at the Township’s Collinsville Park and proceed up Martin Luther King Avenue to Morristown High School for a teach-in, Kimbrough said on Sunday.
“While marching begins to cease, we will continue to move onward,” she said, predicting a day that will be celebratory and symbolic, as it progresses along MLK Avenue.
“We will have powerful speakers, and youths sharing their experience in Morristown,” Kimbrough said. Participants will be asked to wear masks and maintain six feet of distance, to reduce risks of spreading the coronavirus.
Started in 2016, the local BLM chapter was galvanized by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. A May 30 procession from Morristown to the Township was followed by demonstrations in Boonton, Morris Plains, Chatham, and other Morris County communities.
“We will continue to work on inclusion and equity in our school districts across Morris County. We will continue to raise concerns about the treatment of the Black people by our police. We will continue to demand a seat at the table.
“This will be a Black Joy and Healing celebration!” she said.
