[PHOTO GALLERY & VIDEO] Race And…

Too often after tragedies, as civil rights attorney Robert Patillo put it, “we march, we protest, we rally, and we go home. We march, we protest, we rally and then we go home.”

Well Thursday night at The Race & Justice Power Talk the stage full of participants at Tri Cities High School were determined that the hundreds in attendance would go home with the tools to – as the program was subtitled- “[empower] families on how to preserve the life of African American men.”

Towards that effort, WAOK-AM morning personality Lorraine Jacques-White led an instructive – and occasionally fiery – discussion that included Atlanta Victim Assistance Program executive director Brenda Muhammad, attorneys Patillo and Mawuli Mel Davis, Tri Cities principal Dan Sims, psychologist/CNN correspondent Dr. Alduan Tartt, WSB-TV reporter Tom Jones, retired correctional officer Bruce Griggs, V-103′s Greg Street and Atlanta rapper Translee; along with their special guests, family members of the late Robert Champion, Ariston Waiters, Canard Arnold and Trayvon Martin.

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