On June 4, 2020, protesters gathered at 149th Street and 3rd Avenue, in Mott Haven. They met at the Hub — the civic and cultural center of the South Bronx — to listen to speakers, pass around water and face masks, and meet the call to ”take the streets.”

One week had passed since people — enraged and politically energized over the murder of George Floyd — began a new protest movement in America, demanding government accountability for the health inequities and gross economic inequality laid bare by COVID, as well as radical reform of a criminal justice system rooted in the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.

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