By Jeff CharlesÂ
Hereâs one that wonât make it to the national news networks. Black pastors and churchgoers marched in Chicago to protest against the violence that occurred in the city last week.
The march was intended to repudiate the unrest that occurred when groups of teenagers took to the streets to vandalize vehicles and city property. Some attacked tourists and two of the teens were shot.
Fox 32Â reported:
There were no large or disruptive gatherings forming in and around Chicagoâs Millennium Park Saturday. What there has been â a larger police presence and others coming together to deter another teen takeover.
Half a dozen of Chicagoâs most prominent African American churches collaborated in the march.
At Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road stood more than 500 black men in solidarity for a cause greater than themselves.
One participant told reporters: âWhat I think will help them is each man take one, to learn thereâs another way in life, and you donât have to go that way.â
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