The Racial Justice Commission aimed high but ended up lost in the clouds. Justice figure by Tingey Injury Law Firm; Clouds by Zbynek Burival, both via Unsplash. VV RCB Collage
Way back in August of 2021, in the basement of a beautiful Bed-Stuy church, I stood in an orderly queue and waited my turn to testify before members of a rare legal creature in New York: a charter revision commission, which is empowered to change the City Charter by designing ballot questions that will be voted on by our city’s residents.
This iteration was called the Racial Justice Commission (RJC), and
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