Mayor Adams taps two officials to lead NYC's racial justice efforts
Almost a year after New York City voters overwhelmingly approved ballot measures on racial justice matters last November, the city has finally announced who will lead those efforts.Sideya Sherman as head of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice, or MOERJ, and police reformer and city health official Linda Tigani as chair and executive director of the NYC Commission on Racial Equity, or CORE.the ballot proposals last year.
Sherman has voiced support for several anti-racist bills pending in the City Council, including one that would require anti-racism training for city employees. At a recent Council hearing, heTigani most recently served as acting chief equity and strategy officer at the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has also spent years working with groups that advocated for police reforms.
“Linda is driven by her belief in the Palestinian right to return to their land and the self determination of all Black/African people to govern themselves and their land,” the bio states. “The decrease in the overall number of stop-and-frisks being reported by the NYPD is inaccurate and presents a false picture of reality on the ground in communities,” Tigani
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