6 September 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

The families fighting for justice for indigenous deaths in custody

source: Marie Claire
published: 21 August 2020

After Yorta Yorta woman Aunty Tanya Day died in December 2017, her children began looking for traces of her memory in her bedroom. They already had much of it close to their hearts.

Their mother, 55, was a proud community woman. She had helped run the co-op in her home town of Echuca and had assisted at the childcare centre. She was an excellent cook and used her skills to make big batches of food for elders and the community, as well as bake cupcakes with her grandchildren.

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4 July 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Murder in the Car Park viewers want justice for Daniel Morgan’s family

source: Metro News
published: 29 June 2020

Murder in the Car Park viewers want justice for Daniel Morgan after his brutal death remains unsolved. Daniel was killed in 1987 in an axe attack in a south London pub car park, just three years after he had set up his own detective agency. There were no witnesses to his death.

Channel 4’s three-part docuseries tells the story of Morgan’s murder which, despite five criminal investigations and costing £30mil, still remains unexplained 33 years later.

Based on thousands of pages of documents, court testimony and often contradictory interviews, ‘Murder In The Car Park’ uses dramatic reconstruction, archive footage, and detailed interviews from many of the key people involved.

27 June 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, Georgia Governor signs hate crimes legislation

source: NPR News
published: 26 June 2020

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed a hate crimes bill into law. The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man shot dead while jogging in February, drew nationwide attention and energized efforts to pass this law.

Ahead of the signing on Friday, Kemp called House Bill 426 a “silver lining” amid difficult and stormy times.

“There are plenty of disagreements and division, but today we stand together as Republicans and Democrats, Black and white, male and female … to affirm a simple but powerful motto, Georgia is a state too great to hate,” Kemp said.