One of the original groups to bring awareness to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery will cease using the date of his death as its foundation mark and pivot its efforts to another local organization.
According to a press release, Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Arbery, who was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, last year after being chased by three white men, has reached an agreement with the 2:23 Foundation that it will stop using the name and donate all of the $345,306.73 raised in scholarship funds to her own foundation named after her son.
We have collectively decided that fighting the battle in front of us is what’s most important.”
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