(BACK OF THE SHIRT)
Last fall, when two Black high school students sat under the "white" tree on their campus, white students responded by
hanging nooses from the tree. When Black students protested the light punishment for the students who hung the nooses,
District Attorney Reed Walters came to the school and told the
students he could "take [their] lives away with a stroke of [his] pen." Racial tension continued to mount in Jena, and the District
Attorney did nothing in response to several egregious cases of violence and threats against black students. But when a white student--who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses--taunted a black student, allegedly called
several black students "nigger", and was beaten up by black
students, six black students were charged with second-degree attempted murder. Last month, the first young man to be tried, Mychal Bell, was convicted. He faces up to 22 years in prison
for a school fight.
We MUST UNIFY OR DIE!!!

What is The Zero Murder Rate Movement?

The Zero Murder Rate Movement is an effort to unite the community in discussion and actions around strategies that encourage us to do for ourselves what no one can do for us. Its primary goals are to: (1) spread love throughout the Black community; (2) end the senseless deaths of Black people; (3) stop the violence; (4) end poor health; (5) end poor housing; (6) destroy poverty; and (7) end self-hate. As a collaborative effort of organizations throughout the city and surrounding areas, the Zero Murder Rate Movement is working to unify brain power and resources to end the death crisis experienced by Black people in Baltimore and throughout the nation.