Empire City Live from Brooklyn

Join Crooked Ideas, the non-profit partner of Crooked Media, and Chenjerai Kumiyaka, host of the award-winning podcast, Empire City: The Untold Story of NYPD, live in Brooklyn for an evening of conversation about the current state of policing.

Featuring the community members and organizations pushing back to protect the most vulnerable among us, Empire City Live will arm organizers with the tools to mobilize against the current wave of federalized police forces invading cities to profile and terrorize Black and Brown residents. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the panel begins at 7:00 p.m.

Feature Panelists are:

Lumumba Bandele, Interim Executive Director at Communities United for Police Reform

Adilka Pimentel, Urban Youth Collaborative

Yaritza Mendez, Director of the Power to Win Initiative at The Action Lab

Dushoun "Bigga" Almond, Program Director of Brownsville In, Violence Out

Featured Organizations:

The Action Lab

We Build the Block

1Hood Media

Urban Democracy Lab

Center for Race, Inequity, and the Law

LPE NYC

Initiative for Community Power

Black Gotham Experience

The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law

Partners for Dignity and Rights

Host or Publisher Crooked Ideas