AALBC Mourns the Passing of Viola Plummer

[Troy]

I learned of Plummer's passing (January 15, 2023) through an email sent to me today which included the following article published in Our Time Press.

 

This is an important article.  Plummer's passing did not get national coverage, but she deserved it.  A Google search shows coverage by Indie Black-owned publications -- which we have to support (subscribe to one). 

 

If you are from the New York City area, you will be familiar (or should be) with many of the names mentioned.  These are the people on the front lines fighting for us, not just locally, but globally.  Mainstream media will completely ignore our true warriors in favor of rants of dysfunction Black celebrities--giving them outsized influence distorting how we, as a people are viewed and even how we view ourselves. 

 

Largely unsung they fight on. Like another Brooklyn warrior, Shirley Chisholm, Plummer was "unbought and unbossed."  May she rest in peace.

 

 

 

by Nayaba Arinde

(a friend of Sister Plummer, is editor-at-large for Our Time Press.)

 

On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue in Bed-Stuy, to commune, reminisce, and share food prepared by Attorney Esmeralda Simmons and others. Tears were held, but barely. Toasts were made to bless her journey, as her favorite song The Commodores ‘Heroes’ played in the background. “Viola Plummer was the last of the five original core founders of the December 12th Movement: Sonny Abubadika Carson, Coltrane Chimurenga, Elombe Brath, and Father Lucas, they are all gone now,” activist Omowale Clay told Our Time Press.

 

A snowstorm swept through New York City on Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 15th, 2024, as news broke of the passing of activist Viola Plummer, 86, co-founder of the Bed Stuy, Brooklyn-based civil and human rights organization, The December 12th Movement…. Read the rest at Our Time Press

 

 

 

[ProfD]

I didn't know about her but it reads like New York City and Black folks all over the world lost a true warrior who fought for us for a very long time.  Job well done.  RIP matriarch Viola Plummer.

[richardmurray]

@Troy

change the link to the following

 

https://ourtimepress.com/viola-plummer-last-of-original-december-12th-movement-transitions/