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Police Brutality

Washington Heights Demands Justice For Trayvon Martin

Uptown Cares: Justice For Trayvon

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and…

The Washington Heights Phoenix – From Riots to Renaissance

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) 20 years ago, this very month, Washington Heights went up in flames, anger and disgust. The Crack epidemic had changed the neighborhood for the worst and corrupted everything it touched. Washington Heights went from being…

Op-Led: John Collado Remembered

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) Instead of planning their Thanksgiving festivities John Collado’s loved ones are mourning his tragic death at the hands of police during a botched undercover arrest in early September. Buoyed by…