Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School Student Councils

Emerson Sykes, a First Amendment attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, will make a virtual campus visit Oct. 26 and reflect on his work with Black student activists in the U.S. and Africa, as well as reclaiming free speech as a progressive value. 
 

City & State’s Power of Diversity: Black 100 – researched and written in partnership with Stephon Johnson of the New York Amsterdam News – recognizes all of these leaders, as well as the many Black business executives, nonprofit leaders, union officials, advisers, advocates and activists who are blazing new trails in New York.  

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, when her statue replaces that of a Confederate general.  

Under new student leadership and increased involvement, The Village Mentoring Inc. hosted their second annual Ahmaud Arbery Community walk to honor the lives of African-Americans that were lost to police brutality.