Photos: Thousands rally in Brooklyn for Black transgender lives
Thousands of marchers dressed in white flooded several blocks around the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday afternoon to support human rights for Black transgender people.
Organizers included the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, The Okra Project and Black Trans Femmes in the Arts. Scheduled speakers included transgender activist Raquel Willis, author Ceyenne Doroshow and the family of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman who died after an epileptic seizure in solitary confinement last June at Rikers Island jail.
The march came days after the reported deaths of two Black transgender women, Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells in Philadelphia and Riah Milton in Liberty Township, Ohio. Both are being investigated as homicides.
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