Atlantic Philanthropies Joins Black Foundation Executives In Sharing Grief Over Police Shootings
Just hours before five police officers were gunned down in the streets of Dallas, black foundation and nonprofit leaders from across the country picked up their phones Thursday and shared their grief with one another following the second killing of a black man by police this week.
So far, the reaction to the Dallas shootings, which occurred during a street protest to call attention to deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., has been muted.
Black Lives Matter tweeted that it "advocates dignity, justice, and freedom. Not murder."
The conference call Thursday afternoon, which was set up by the Association of Black Foundation Executives, attracted more than 70 participants, and was shared on social media under the hashtag #JustBe...