The setting will be the Macon County Health Department's parking lot, the same place as a candlelight vigil to remember Claude "Tony" Holmes Jr., 20, who was shot and killed nearby on March 28.
But the message will be that it's time for African-Americans to start doing something about the causes of the violence that is destroying the lives of their young people.
"We're not going to wait for funding or the city," said Jeffrey Perkins, president of the Decatur branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's time for our community to stand up and take charge." Read more...
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