"On Tuesday, March 17, the NAACP of Ellenville will host African American activist Odell Winfield in the community room at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum starting at 6 p.m. The occasion will be a Criminal Justice public meeting and it is open to the public. The background to the talk contains the sobering reality of a nation torn apart again over racial issues. Black youths fear being shot by white cops for no good reason. White police are all too aware that far too many civilians are carrying guns, which can put confrontations into the hair trigger range. And then there are the statistics regarding incarceration."
Civil rights group launched at Monticello rally - recordonline.com
"Speaker after speaker called for healing in the village Saturday, as a group of residents gathered to organize a local chapter of the Rev. Al Sharpton's civil rights organization, the National Action Network. The organizational meeting, which was partly a rally for Monticello's embattled mayor, Gordon Jenkins, drew about 60 people to the Kings Chapel Mission Church on Spring Street, including Jenkins himself." Continue Reading | 
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