Kayla Moore: Remember Our Names Black History Month Prayer Vigil

People of all faiths are invited to join Berkeley Congregations and members of the Justice 4 Kayla Moore coalition for an afternoon vigil in honor and celebration of Black History Month, and in remembrance of black lives murdered throughout American history: from the middle passage and slavery to the civil rights movement to the ongoing realities of hate crimes and police brutality. We will read names, sing, pray, reflect, and remember.

February 13 is the anniversary of the murder of transgender African American woman Kayla Moore by the Berkeley Police Department 4 years ago. The Vigil is being organized in partnership with the Justice 4 Kalya Moore Coalition.

Sources for names to be read include, but are not limited to: “Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind: Unarmed African-American Women, Men, and Children and encounters with police 1970 to 2015 by Daniel Alan Buford published in Tikkun Magazine online September 28th 2016.

We Charge Genocide : The Crime of Government against the Negro people by William L Patterson historic petition to the United Nations for relief from a crime of the US government against African Americans 1951. Names of police brutality victims and those who were lynched under color of law.

#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women includes violence on Transgender people.
We Charge Genocide- 2014 Shadow Report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committees
Tangled Roots and Trees slave name Roll Project Tangled roots and trees.Blogspot.com Plantation records auction inventory lists
Louisiana Slave Records 1800 to 1832 transcribed by Stephanie Kay Martin-Quiatte for the Louisiana genealogical project African American inventory of Plantation Slaves from all Louisiana parishes and slave auction inventories.