Hundreds March in Support of Black Lives Matter

Hundreds March in Support of Black Lives Matter
Marchers hold aloft a Black Lives Matter banner while marching down East Church Avenue in Fresno.

Photos by Peter Maiden

Several hundred marchers met at Saint Rest Baptist Church in West Fresno June 6 to promote the message of Black Lives Matter in a peaceful manner. They marched over a mile to a rally on the grounds of the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center. Joby Jones, who was addressing the crowd, asked how many people at the rally had lost someone they knew to police violence, and at least 25 hands went up. The rally was also in opposition to gang violence. There was a profound sadness in the crowd for all lives cut short in the community.

There was a crowd of several hundred at the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center for the Stop the Violence Fresno event.

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    The Community Alliance is a monthly newspaper that has been published in Fresno, California, since 1996. The purpose of the newspaper is to help build a progressive movement for social and economic justice.

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