Rev. Eugene Rivers III plans to difficulty an “appeal and challenge” on Sunday for Black fathers throughout the nation to “engage the question of violence in our communities.”
Rivers will difficulty the enchantment on Father’s Day at 114 Melville Ave in Dorchester at 2:30 p.m.
Rev. Rivers pointed to CDC information that reveals murder charges spiked in 2020 and have “remained higher than before the pandemic.” Rivers mentioned murder was the third main reason for loss of life for youngsters and younger adults aged 10 to 24 in 2021. The charge, Rivers mentioned, was the very best since 1997.
The FBI, Rivers mentioned, reported greater than 8,400 Black murder victims in 2021 in comparison with white victims.
“We are appealing to Black fathers across the country to step up, to support Black mothers who are raising their children alone and to work in strategic partnerships with law enforcement to mentor and monitor Black youth,” Rivers mentioned in an announcement. “We are appealing to Black men to join this movement to save the lives of our children.”
Crimes in Boston have been occurring primarily in 4 neighborhoods by a small group of individuals, with primarily Black males harmed, in keeping with Boston police information.
Those neighborhoods have been Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, and Roxbury, the information confirmed. And greater than 84% of the town’s murder victims between 2020 and 2022 have been Black.
“We will not tolerate any neighborhood feeling like residents have to live in fear of violence or experience loss that ripples down, generation after generation,” Mayor Michelle Wu mentioned in an April assertion alongside the information.
Homicide charges in 2023 have been on the rise, the Boston Police Department beforehand mentioned.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”