April 4-Victims of Violence Wholly Day-1 of 3 Days of Respect -Wear Black & Love

The concept for Victims of Violence Wholly Day began as a personal crusade on April 4, 1968; when Mama Dee (EvAngel Mamadeelove YHWHnewBN) wrote her first published work to honor the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called, “Martin Luther King, the King of Men.”  Out of respect, she wore Black and Love annually on April 4th was to step outside of my blackness with an extra dose of love to cope with all the Crimes against Humanity and untreated heart and mind Jim Crow/genocide laws against them.

It became an organization, Global Committee Commemorating King Days, when her sister, Helen Richard, the first female Chicago Transit Authority Driver ever slain in the line of duty, was killed on February 13, 1984.  On March 13, 1985 former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, after Mama Dee and her preschool class met and presented him with 2,000 signatures, to proclaim April 4th as a Day for Victims of Violence as per her request.

Our 2021 theme is to Honor the Worldwide Championship of the Jackie Robinson West Little League, whose championship title was hijacked.  Due to racial segregation, they didn't have a baseball field of their own and practiced outside of the boundaries and were penalized.  Advocates for Indigenous Native Black American Rights will kickoff a protest and petition drive to keep National and 50 years of local Black Baseball History in Chicago's Jackson Park.  They are being forced to leave and give up their baseball site to make room for the Tiger Woods Golf Course that offers little to the community, in comparison to baseball and the history that will be destroyed; especially when they have already been forced to give up a site in Jackson Park.