Gwen Carr

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Gwen Carr

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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
1h 57m
Movie 2022

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

Biography

Gwen Carr (born 1949) is an American activist, public speaker, and author. Carr's son, Eric Garner, was killed by a New York Police Department officer who used a prohibited chokehold to arrest Garner. Since her son's death, Carr has become active in police reform in the United States, including as a member of Mothers of the Movement and a voice in the Black Lives Matter movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gwen Carr, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.