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RACIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES FILE SUIT AGAINST The Black Stars News 2015 Annual I SwillChonor RMayor IMINATORY ZONING AwardsD Dinner
DavidCommittee Dinkins,for Rep. economic growth. And the County's own The Lawyers' CivilCharles Rights planning documents have long identified Rangel, Rep.Carolina YvetteAppleseed Clarke, Under Law, the South Legal Justice Center, the NAACP, and R. Donahue Peebles, Barbara affordable housing as a priority," said Adam Protheroe, Litigation Attorney with the South the law Arnwine, firm of Venable LLPBarron, has suedSabrina the Inez Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center. Georgetown, SC County Council for housing Lamb, Dr. Rudy Crew, Stephen "But when presented with a chance to discrimination by preventing the construction Byrd, Alia Jones, the Centralactually build affordable housing, the County of a 90-unit affordable housingand community rejected it with no coherent rationale. This Park Five survivors of the gross injustice called Porter's Landing. In 2021, County refusedon a rezoning request18 that would have – action will disproportionately harm Black December from 6:00pm families and perpetuate longstanding allowed10:00pm constructionatdespite one of MISThaving Harlem, 46 West patterns of racial segregation." the most serious shortages of affordable 116th Street. housing in all of South Carolina. This decision“Each perpetuates longstanding honoree chosen patterns for of racialrecognition segregation inhas the demonstrated County. The lawsuit – filed by the South Carolina leadership and vision in NAACP,exceptional the Georgetown County NAACP, David Dinkins her or housing his respective and affordable developerprofession FourSix or endeavor and in some significant Development – includes claims under the was a member of the New York federal Fair Housing Act,contributed 42 U.S.C § 1981, measure has towards City Council, representing the 42 U.S.Ccreating § 1982, a and the Equal Protection more just society in this Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 40th council district in Brooklyn, country,” says Black Star News
use planning practice but instead by the racially-based NIMBYism that fueled much of the community opposition to the Porter's Landing development." "Local institutions such as our healthcare systems, sheriff's department, fire department, and the local school district have experienced a decrease in employee retention resulting from lack of housing. Maintaining employment in our local systems is essential to our community and
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Pioneering producers Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones, through their advocacy to achieveFront racial justice, company Row fighting Production, inside and outside“Cat the courts ensure brought on atoHot Tin Roof” that Black people and other people of color and “A Streetcar Named have the voice, opportunity, and powerDesire” to with a multi-ethnic cast to make the promises of our democracy real. Broadway. In 2016 bring For more information, please visitthey https:// lawyerscommittee.org. “Eclipsed” with Oscar Winner LupitaAppleseed Nyong ’O to Justice Broadway. South Carolina Legal
Center is a forceful and respected advocate Honorees, so-called Central for low-income Souththe Carolinians on issues Park 5, are collectively and such as health care, immigration, reentry issues, individually housing, education, hunger, heroes. Theypublic are benefits,survivors domestic of violence, and consumer one of the ugliest Charles Rangel issues. SC Appleseed of is dedicated af York’s miscarriage justice intoNew ecting systemic change wherever we can history; railroaded majority. She now leads The do the most goodhaving — in andbeen through the and legislature, unjustly convicted for a crime Transformative Justice Coalition. courthouse, administrative agencies, community the media. they did notand commit andWe for which Arnwine was for 26 years executive grow ourthey impact by helping dosentences the served longothers prison director of the Lawyers’ Committee same through education, training, and coranging from seven years to 13 years for Civil Rights Under the Law. counseling.
succeeding her mother, Una S. "Zoning founder decisions like thepublisher GeorgetownMilton and County Council's rejection of Porter's T. Clarke. In the current 114th “Obviously much LandingAllimadi. are quintessential violations of the work before being exonerated when the Congress Clarke serves on Inez Barron, honoree, formerly aFounded in 1909 in response to the ongoing needs tosaid be Malcolm done here and Fair Housing Act," Peytonactual rapist confessed. They are: the Energy and Commerce State Assembly member, is nowviolence against Black people around the around theinworld.” Cook, Senior Counsel the Fair Housing Yusef Abdus Salaam; Raymond Committee, responsible for and Community Development Project a New York City council membercountry, the NAACP (National Association The gala starts at 6:00pm with a Santana Jr., Antron McCray, Kevin consumer protection, food with the Lawyers' Committee. "In a 2015 and a champion of education for for the Advancement of Colored People) is cocktail hour toJustice be followed the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights Richardson, and Kharey Wise. Source: NAACP.org Supreme Court decision, Anthonyby the Photo safety, energy development, public our youth. organization in the nation. We have over Kennedy wrote that like ceremonies. this one dinner andcases awards There health, communications, the The Black Star News, which focuses lie at thewill 'heartland' of Fair Housing Act by Predominantly Honoree the Imhotep Byrd is 2,200 units and branches across the nation, white, middle-class residents need for Gary affordable be musical entertainment environment, and interstate and further emphasizes onwell investigative has with over 2 millionjournalism, activists. jurisprudence. filing Cassandra this case, Plaintiffs Wedgefield Plantation golf housing," Georgetown a said legendary radioNAACP talk show host along opera By singer Douglas of the nearby international commerce. Our mission is to secure the political, been featured as a result of some if and their co-counsel are working to make the course community mobilized to oppose Branch and President, Marvinproducer, Neal. "The local executive radio DJ,educational, social, and economic equality from promiseand of the Fair harmonica Housing Act,phenomenon enacted in its news scoops, on CNN, The New the rezoning and spread misinformation Georgetown NAACP branch moves to force R. Donahue Peebles, honoree, is poet, songwriter, music recording Galison. David Dinkins is of rights in order to eliminate race-based 1968 inWilliam the wake of the assassination of Dr. about the proposed development that our elected leadership to be intentional and York Daily News, The New York a leading developer and founder of discrimination and ensure the health and artist and producer, Martin Luther Kingfor Jr.,Lifetime real." honored Achievement was communicated in racially coded deliberate in providing affordablerapper, housing writer for Post, The Village Voice, and Brill’s The Peebles Co., the nation’s largest and County community activist. He beganwell-being of all persons. Georgetown residents." he was New York was City’s FourSix— Development's intention to first language. Despite mobilization by Plaintiff Content magazine. African American-owned real his careerNAACP as a radio build a 90-unit apartment building that and was alsoGeorgetown County NAACP to counteract African American mayor "The Georgetown branchDJ didin BuffaloVenable LLP is an American Lawyer Global estate firm with $3.5 and advocate forbillion Porter'sworthincredible firm headquartered in Washington, Black Star News honorees affordable to familiesNelson with incomes at 40%to thethese narratives at work age canvassing 15. For over 30 years, he’s 100 lawPast the community welcomed Mandela Landing, County Council the DC that have servesincluded: as primary Gil counsel to a(Like It ofthe properties underrejected development or 50% city of theafter area his median. When FourSix Noble to understand the dire need for affordable been a talk show host at WBLS and release in 1990. rezoningorin management its final vote. — he was one worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized applied to rezone the Porter's Landing site housingWLIB to address racial injustice and Is), Rep. Maxine Waters, Soledad radio in New York City. Heorganizations, nonprofits, high-net-worth to allowRep. multifamily housing, Georgetown Charles Rangel, also honored "The Porter's development inequity in South Carolina," said of theLanding pioneering developerswho economic O’Brien (CNN), Ms. Camille Cosby, also has a Friday night radio talk entrepreneurs, and other individuals. With County for initially appeared supportive. was consistent with Georgetown NAACP Assistant General Counsel Martina Lifetime Achievement, has proposalhelped turn around and revitalize Voza Rivers (New Heritage more than 850 professionals across the Theatre), show onhow WBAI. County staff and the Planning Commission housing and land use policies Tiku. "This shows powerful local served in Congress since 1971. He County's is the once-blighted Anacostia including in California, Delaware, Louis (NY1 News), Amel recommended approval of the rezoning, and, as well as South Carolina state law for activismHonoree and national legal strategy canfoundercountry,Errol Sabrina Lamb, a recipient The Bronze medal for Illinois, Maryland, York, Virginia, neighborhood in Washington, D.C. in the initial stages ofofthe zoning application Larrieux New (Entertainer), Dr.and William mixed-use planned developments, which move the law. This advocacy and lawsuit Money, is a champion Washington, DC, the firm strategically save soldiers behind enemymakes the process,helping the County Council voted in A champion of African-American County Council's denial of the are the of nextWorld step in of ensuring just housing in Pollard (Medgar Evers College), of financial literacy for youth-- sheadvances its clients' objectives in the favor of line the rezoning, allowing the zoning during the Korean War. zoning application Porter's LandingPeebles’ South Carolina." economicfor empowerment is Herm Edwards (NY Jets), Nayaba application to advance. This indicated that teaches knowledge about handlingUnited States and around the globe. all the more remarkable," said Matthew The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights contemplating a possible run for NYC Rep. Yvette Clarke is a Democratic Arinde News), advises(Amsterdam clients on a broad rangeLa-Verna the rezoning was on track for approval, but in J. Allman, counsel at Venable LLP. "The Under Law is a nonpartisan, money, budgetingnonprofit and planning. Venable mayor in 2017. of business and regulatory law, legislative member Fountain (Columbia University), turn it was denied.of the US House of Council's action was contrary to the organization, formed in 1963 at the request litigation,(DC37), and the full range Dancy Dr. Rudy honoree, is one ofaf airs, complex Representatives New Lillian Roberts Desiree unanimous recommendation the Planningcivil of President John F.Crew, Kennedy to mobilize Honoree BarbaraofArnwine, "Georgetown County's recentfrom housing of intellectual property disciplines. For Commission as well as the County's own the nation's leading lawyers as agents the nation’s leading educators. He’s York whose 9th district covers (New York Times), Greg Floyd (Local needs assessment recognized the severe rights lawyer, is a champion of more information, please visit https://www. planning guidance, indicating that for change in the Civil Rights Movement. shortage of affordable housing in the County much of central Brooklyn. Before adoptedprotecting 237), Rev. Al Sharpton (National president of Medgar Evers College voting rights of ethnic venable.com. and found that thisCongress shortage was limiting she the Council was not motivated by sound land Today, the Lawyers' Committee uses legal entering in 2007, Action Network), and many others. minority groups — the emerging
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