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March 30, 2005
Town Hall Meeting Scheduled
The Rashawn Brazell Collective invites all interested citizens to attend a Town Hall Meeting to discuss how the community at large might begin to translate their sorrow and anger about the murder of Rashawn Brazell into dialogue and action. Local politicians, law enforcement officials and representatives from several community-based organizations will be in attendance.
Where: Brooklyn’s Borrough Hall (209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY).
When: Monday, April 4th 2005, 7pm-9pm
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March 24, 2005
Good Friday Vigil for Rashawn Brazell
This week, the community will gather to commemorate the life of Rashawn Brazell, a 19-year-old gay Brooklyn man murdered in February whose severed limbs were found inside the A line subway tunnel at Nostrand Avenue. Brazell’s torso was later found at a recycling plant.
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N.Y. man's killer at large; vigil planned
More than a month after 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell was brutally killed and dismembered, police are still hunting for suspects, while Brazell’s friends and some LGBT leaders have mobilized to draw attention to the tragedy.
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Vigil In Memory of Rashawn Brazell
Community Vigil for Rashawn Brazell
Friday, March 25, 2005
6:30pm
Nostrand Ave Station (A/C Train)
This Friday, March 25th, 2005 there will be a candle light vigil held for the remembrance of Rashawn Brazell who was brutally murdered in February here in New York City.
The vigil is open to all who wish to attend and will be held at Nostrand Avenue Subway entrance at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, eastern standard time. No special speakers are expected or slated to be there, and nothing is required for those that want to be there and share in remembering Rashawn Brazell.
Our prayers and thoughts and positive actions are in the hopes that we this may never again happen to any one, no matter who they are, at any time.
We propose at that time, to light one candle, in Rashawn Brazell’s memory and saw a few words as we think about and offer hope to a better day and change in the way we live and how we live in our different but linked communities.
Please stop by and show your support in recognizing this one life ended due to violence and hatred in our world. You and your prayers can change things if we each of us come together as one.
For more information, email troynotorious@yahoo.com or rashawn@nysbgn.org.
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March 22, 2005
HRC, Alarmed Over Recent Apparent Hate Crimes
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign expressed concern over recent violent crimes against gay and transgender victims in New Mexico, North Carolina, Virginia, New York and California. These crimes underscore the need for laws that protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans from bias-motivated crimes.
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March 18, 2005
AVP wants meeting on murder
The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project has called for an emergency meeting with George Grasso, First Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department. The group is concerned about how the police are treating the murder of Rashawn Brazell. The 19-year-old’s dismembered body was found on Feb. 17.
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March 15, 2005
AVP Calls for Meeting with NYPD Official
New York – Representatives from the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP) today announced today that they have requested an emergency meeting with George A. Grasso, First Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department to discuss AVP’s displeasure with the level of communication between the NYPD and the agency in the wake of last month’s gruesome murder of Rashawn Brazell.
National Coalition of Anti-violence Programs press release
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March 06, 2005
No Coverage of the Violence against LGBT People of Color
Columnist Irene Monroe takes issue with the media’s silences around violence against LGBT individuals of color.
Little is ever reported about hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of color, and how issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation trigger the type of violence against them. Nor are the reasons for the silence around such violence often explored.
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The Human Rights Campaign reports on Hate Crimes
HRC.org provides definitions, statistics, legislative developments and other resources related to unlawful acts motivated by bias.
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The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
The NCAVP provides links to its coalition of over 20 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victim advocacy and documentation programs located throughout the United States.
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March 05, 2005
Book: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Developed from a special issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, this book presents an overview of the problem, discusses the context of anti-gay violence, focuses on both victims and perpetrators and concludes with coverage of a variety of community responses across the nation. Each section opens with a survivor’s actual story - first person accounts - to give the reader insight into the reality of this serious social problem.
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Book: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifest as discrimination. It explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people - Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, on occasion, women, and those with disabilities - have increasingly captured notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence continue to go unnoticed? It also contributes to the discourse of criminology by considering how “legal mobilization” has brought about whole new categories of statutory criminal conduct.
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Book: The Spectacle of Violence
The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia,Gender and Knowledge
“The Spectacle of Violence explores the issues surrounding violence and hostility towards lesbians and gay men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women reflecting a range of experiences of verbal hostility, physical violence and sexual violence, Gail Mason asks fundamental questions about where violence comes from and what effects it has. How do lesbians and gay men manage the risk of violence? And what is the relationship between violence and power?”
“Challenging current thinking, Mason highlights the ways in which different identities, different bodies and different systems of thought interact. She argues for the importance of thinking about homophobic violence in the context of other core issues such as gender and race.”
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Book: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Inner-City Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules — based largely on an individual’s ability to command respect — is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson’s incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
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Book: Media and Race in America
The Black Image in the White Mind
The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks. Using the media as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore thetreatment of African Americans on network and local news to incisively uncover the messages sent about race by the entertainment industry. While the authors find very little in the media that intentionally promotes racism, they find even less that advances racial harmony.
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Book: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
This book provides rich and detailed accounts of how the media filters racial/ethnic identity through economic or sensationalized perspectives in newspapers, films, television, and radio. By exploring media descriptions of various racial/ethnic groups, Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media provides opportunities to discover, debate, and discuss issues surrounding race/ethnicity and the role of the media in American society.
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March 02, 2005
The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Director Chaz Brack documents the life, legacy and untimely murder of Sakia Gunn, a 15-year-old lesbian woman of color from Newark, New Jersey.
Sakia held promise as a basketball player and was looking forward to becoming an upperclassman at Newark’s West Side High. She and her friends were returning from socializing at NYC’s Greenwich Village piers, a popular spot for lesbian, gay, and transgendered youth. On the night Sakia was murdered, two men propositioned members of their group. The girls rebuffed the sexual advances of the much older assailants. Words were exchanged, a fight ensued, and Sakia was stabbed. She died in the arms of her best friend.
Learn more about the film and Brack’s fight against homophobic violence by visiting its website here.
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