Black Buffalo Determined To Rebuild While Dealing With Grief and Sorrow

Local leaders call on Mayor Byron Brown to commit to fixing concerns that have been amplified by the killing of 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket.

By Curtis Bunn, NBC News

The national media has packed up and moved on to the next mass shooting in America. But residents on the Eastside of Buffalo, where 85 percent of the population is Black, are still grieving — while also trying to figure out how to rebuild. 

“This isn’t one of those situations where we can just go on with our daily lives,” said Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo’s first poet laureate and a social justice activist working for the organization Open Buffalo. 

The May 14 massacre magnified the plight of a community that had long been disadvantaged before 10 Black people were gunned down by a white supremacist at a supermarket. 

 

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