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Akeem Browder

Older brother of Kalief Browder, who committed suicide in 2015 after spending three years at New York’s Rikers Island jail without trial, after he was accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. Akeem is also the founder of the Campaign to Shut Down Rikers.

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