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Board committee forwards amended resolution declaring anti-Black racism a human-rights and public-health crisis
Summary
The Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee voted 3-0 to forward an amended resolution declaring anti-Black racism a human-rights and public-health crisis to the full Board of Supervisors, after hearing testimony from community members and the Human Rights Commission and reopening the public record.
The Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee on July 23 voted unanimously to forward an amended resolution to the full Board of Supervisors declaring anti-Black racism a human-rights and public-health crisis.
Supervisor Shmaulin Walton, the item author, told the committee the resolution "calls attention to this crisis and provides a path for us to address anti black racism." Walton identified a slate of cosponsors in the record and introduced presenters from the Human Rights Commission and the Department of Public Health.
Britney Chiquata, acting chief of staff at the Human Rights Commission and a founding member of MegaBLACK SF, told…
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