![]() Kamau Brown introduced D12 members Frank Brown and Chimhwi Brown. The rally that preceded the unveiling was lively, inspirational and educational. This year, where our community faces an endless wave of white-supremacist fueled police and vigilante terror, COVID-19 health devastation, unemployment and homelessness we decided to make his revolutionary message permanent in our community’s consciousness.” Vinson Verdree noted, “Every July 4th, we place the Douglass speech in Sistas’ Place window. ![]() In his famous speech ‘What to the American Slave is Your 4th of July?’ he concluded ‘for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.’” She added, “This is still true today.” Frederick Douglass fearlessly spoke truth in the 19th century, like Malcolm X did 100 years later. To loud cheers and applause from the hundreds gathered around Sistas’ Place, the covers were pulled off street signs proclaiming “Frederick Douglass Square” to replace those of notorious slaveowners Thomas (pedophile and rapist) Jefferson and Gerret Nostrand.ĭ12 spokesperson Iman Essiet said, “We deliberately chose the person, the act, the date and location. ![]() On July 4th, the People’s Republic of Brooklyn rocked as the December 12th Movement led the community in a people’s street renaming. ![]()
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