The Red Black And Green Show

03/31/2025

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐎𝐁𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐎 𝟓 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening,

An article in the Saturday, March 29, 2025 edition of The Buffalo News, included a featured story on the continued struggle of Mr. John Walker, and The Estate of Mr. Darryl Boyd (deceased)(Rest his soul), to obtain justice in their legal actions against the County of Erie (NY). While the story contained many pertinent details, it erroneously attributed the role that I had in assisting John and Darryl, which preceded, included, and extended beyond the vacatur of both of their New York State Wrongful Convictions, and the dismissal of their Erie County Indictment (No. 41-413).

My role was actually conducted, as Special Projects Facilitator at We Are Women Warriors, and not at the nonprofit organization I have more recently founded, East Side Collaborative Partnership.
I will notify The Buffalo News of the error, and want to acknowledge and thank my dear mother, The Honorable Betty Jean Grant, for the vitally important role that she performed in this entire Matter. Mother met John Walker, and Darryl Boyd, decades before I did. It was she who first introduced me to The Buffalo 5 Story, before I even actually met either John or Darryl, face to face. In Summer of 2021, they were gracious enough to allow me to interview them, on Mother's popular "Red Black And Green" Facebook Live Show, as Mother recorded us all on her cellphone. That interview was broadcast, from inside The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. After that conversation, I committed that I would assist them, if they were open to my well-intentioned involvement. They were. Mother and I linked arms with them, the Lord brought several additional persons toward all our collective efforts, truth was on our side the entire time, the East Side Buffalo community supported our campaign when, where, and how (we) requested, and the rest is indeed history.

Thankfully, John and Darryl achieved a crucial measure of freedom, while Darryl was still here with us. May he, Darryn Gibson, and Floyd Martin, Rest In Eternal Peace. However, the fight is not yet over. So if you would, please pray and keep hope alive, for a highly authentic brand of justice to be rendered, unto the brothers of The Buffalo 5. If you are interested to learn more about their story, visit the dedicated page I established in their honor, several years ago. You will find it here:

https://facebook.com/thebuffalo5

Sincerely,
Sherry Sherrill

The Buffalo 5 are a group of African American men who, as 16-year-old teenagers, were profiled, wrongly blamed, falsely accused, arrested, indicted, and convicted, for a brutal robbery-homicide they did 𝑛𝑜𝑡 commit. This website tells their story.

03/27/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮, 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
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For supporting REMOVAL of the NY 33 Kensington Expressway, the RESTORATION of Humboldt Parkway, and the RECONNECTION of Humboldt/MLK Parks, and the REVITALIZATION of the East Side Buffalo community. Those three objectives being obtained, will lend to the transformative improvement of our beloved East Side community, in Buffalo (NY). Clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a healthful living environment to abide in are not only a necessity, they are all people's inalienable right. Minority communities' pathway toward enjoyment of their active and robust participation, within this entire Planet Earth's decidedly Green Future, is unquestionably paved with high regard for, and in fact adherence to, conscientious application of sustainable principles, that undergird all our external environment-facing decisions. These must routinely inform, and in essence govern, all our outwardly manifested actions. Such (a) moral and affirming virtue must now become a requisite, if it is not already, and indeed must now comprise our customary norm.

NYS Department of Transportation’s tunnel project in Buffalo, and anywhere else those projects are advanced in minority neighborhoods that are suffering, like our city's, from toxic infrastructures' polluting effects, fails to secure any deliverance from such direly adverse impacts, and fails to procure any crucially important quality-of-life outcomes. Tunnel projects, 'cap' projects, 'stitch' projects, and whatever else name they arrive to go by and including 'promenade park' projects, implemented where the environmental degradation along pollution lines is currently a factor, are not truly in any wise restorative. They are in fact a further exacerbation, of an already deleterious injustice. Our community in Buffalo, therefore, must now necessarily take the lead, to aid our own selves. We must now advance, secure, and enforce our own "best interests", in this very portentous matter that is also of national, and possibly even international, consequence.

One of the Biden-Harris U.S. Presidential Administration's overarching mandates and intentions, was for its once-in-a-generation Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation to literally "reconnect" this country's predominantly Black and low-income, urban, inner-core, communities. Such neighborhoods, and we residents who have historically inhabited they, were deliberately imperiled by a previous generation's unfair and debilitating public policies, which were facilitated to systematically encroach upon, and breech, the very threshold of our dignity. The construction of high-speed 1950s era limited access highways, inside in this nation's very densely populated inner cities, interrupted and uprooted the lives of nearly a million minority households. It destroyed thousands of neighborhood-based small businesses. It decimated countless downtown USA City business districts. Under the auspices of so-called 'urban renewal', but which was actually "negro" and "poor person" removal, our hearts were broken, our lives were shattered, our businesses were shuttered, our generational wealth was sabotaged, our health was hijacked, and what has become nearly a century and culture of yet another layer of institutionally imposed terrorism-by-stealth, was commenced. That we have somehow managed to survive, only to be confronted by the perversion of the Reconnecting Communities initiative to not actually fund such invasive highways' removal, but to procure their expansion in this so-called environmental justice era, is nothing short of incredible. The evidence of all of our monumental suffering, and of some of our (who accepted their state DOT's 'cap' or 'deck park' proposal) re-victimization, and of all of our collective trauma, however, is pervasive and clear. We are and will be here, for as long as God Keeps us in the land of the living, but we, like all communities of persons, are designed to do, and to be, infinitely more than merely alive.

Our East Side community’s overwhelming opposition to NYS Department of Transportation’s short-sighted tunnel proposal is being heard loud and clear, inside the City of Buffalo, and throughout the Buffalo-Niagara Region. We took an unapologetic stand for what we knew to be correct, and that is, the absolute right our East Side community has to insist upon a “better” NY 33 Kensington Expressway Project, for ourselves, and for our future generations. Thank you so very much, to each and everyone who stood ten toes down on our East Side community’s urgent business, as we insisted upon Black Buffalo occupying a truly empowered and impactful seat at the table of decision-rendering, that will guide these developments. Ultimately, the decision of what variety of Kensington Expressway Project is to be performed in this city, in this generation, has always been 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚'𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 to make, and not State of New York's DOT's. Because we did not see ourselves as grasshoppers, we were able to stand up to, and to successfully oppose, even a very powerful and very insistent 'giant' regional government Authority, of these United States of America. We knew it was necessary that we do so, whatever the odds, because the agency insisted upon a public policy that neither honored our beloved East Side Buffalo community's "best interest", nor even at long last put forth any effort, whatsoever, to restore or preserve our community's residents' very lives.
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This unique opportunity to attain our aim is furthered, by a growing coalition of East Side focused activists, groups, clubs, agencies, foundations, think tanks, individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations. What we share, is support for Humboldt Parkway neighborhood residents' bold vision of a restored and reconnected East Side community, and we have the utmost esteem for their vested interest. If it be the Lord's Abiding Will, our city’s glorious Humboldt Parkway will once again become faithfully re-manifested, at this historic juncture. God Is indeed with us, and so it is indeed my pleasure, privilege, and indeed honor, to share in such (a) worthy and worthwhile mission. I am eternally grateful, and forever thankful, to my Source and my Sustenance in all things that I apply my hand toward. He Is, in truth, the Lord Jesus Christ. My Savior, and my King. Without Him, I am 'just' a woman who cares very deeply about her community, and who is acquainted with very many other such individuals, both young and old(er), and both male and female. With Him, I can do all things that strengthen me, and that also empower my beloved East Side Buffalo community. With Him as we rise, we'll surmount each and any challenge, on our way to thrive.
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Glory to God alone.
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East Side Collaborative Partnership can be relied upon to ensure that this very necessary MOVEMENT, remains active, positively impactful, and as very highly effective as is humanly possible to achieve. Nevertheless, ultimately, this battle is not ours, it is the Lord's. Nothing is impossible for God. He Can Do all things. Rest assured in the meanwhile, The Collab will remain vigilant, and we will be diligent, in striving to advance our beloved community’s “best interest”. Throughout the entire Kensington Expressway Matter, we will endeavor to keep "our" East Side community INFORMED. We can be trusted with pursuing, and promoting, the enforcement and the reinforcement of the Black East Side's local and regional profile, as "we" too are made a beneficiary of our city's continued recovery, and in its still evolving "renaissance". I, and the members of East Side Collaborative Partnership, as well as my respective Covington Associates Consulting | CAC small business enterprise, and the members of East Side Parkways Coalition, have been all along and are unpaid laborers, in this incredibly rewarding neighborhood and community upliftment Effort. Let us, therefore, continue together while encouraging one another, and collaboratively dialogue as we walk this walk to its final conclusion, without fail. Stay safe, Take care, Remain blessed. Ever upward.
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𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲,
Sherry Sherrill, Founder
𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛.
+1(716) 247-5060 | 𝟐𝟒-𝐇𝐫. 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭)
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𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐮𝐬.
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𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐛.
http://facebook.com/eastsidecollaborativepartnership𝐬
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𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐛.
https://facebook.com/sherrysherrill
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𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 | 𝐂𝐀𝐂
Watch "In Our Own Words" Documentary to Hear Current and Former Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents Discussing the NY 33 Kensington Expressway's Negative Impacts And Their Personal Opposition to the Kensington Expressway Project's Tunnel+Mini Park Proposal
https://www.youtube.com/

03/24/2025

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥

At 2pm, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Buffalo Common Council Chambers (13th Floor), at Buffalo City Hall (65 Niagara Square, downtown Buffalo, NY USA). East Side Parkways Coalition has asked the Buffalo Common Council to draft a Resolution in support of the REMOVAL of the NY Route 33 Kensington Expressway, the RESTORATION of Frederick Law Olmsted's original design of Humboldt Parkway, and the RECONNECTION of Humboldt/MLK Park.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝

Please contact your Buffalo Common Council Member, and request his or her support for the REMOVAL of the NY 33 Kensington Expressway, the RESTORATION of Humboldt Parkway, and the RECONNECTION of Humboldt/MLK Park back to Delaware Park. Click on the photo, below, for a better view of the telephone numbers of those offices. Thank you, in advance, for helping East Side Parkways Coalition ensure that the widely reported 'cancer cluster' community health decimation circumstance prevalent throughout the City of Buffalo's Humboldt Parkway neighborhood, which community health crisis circumstance is caused by the NY 33 Kensington Expressway's 24/7/365 noise and air pollution these past 70 years, and which has also been reported in the Fruit Belt neighborhood, and which might also extend to any additional Kensington Expressway Corridor neighborhood(s), is finally acknowledged by the Buffalo Common Council. May the public elected officials of our beloved city help resolve that devastation, for the benefit of especially Buffalo's overburdened East Side community, and for the benefit of the entire city in general. May we (all) receive such (a) monumental blessing. It has been long delayed.

Watch "In Our Own Words" | Current and Former Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents In Buffalo (NY) Discuss NY 33 Kensington Expressway's Adverse Impacts:
https://www.youtube.com/

Visit East Side Parkways Coalition on the web.
East Side Parkways Coalition
https://eastsideparkwayscoalition.com

Removing the NY 198 Scajaquada Expressway and the NY 33 Kensington Expressway, and Restoring Humboldt Parkway and Reconnecting Humboldt/MLK Park back to Delaware Park, is the #1 "Community Agenda 2025" Public Policy Advocacy Item | Partnership For The Public Good
https://ppgbuffalo.org/community-agenda/

Visit me on the web.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrysherrill/
Sherry Sherrill






Sincerely,
Sherry Sherrill, Founder
East Side Collab
+1(716) 247-5060 | 24-Hr. Main Telephone Line (Organization: Call or Text)

02/23/2024

Please sign the ChangeDotOrg Petition demanding the Removal of NY Route 33 Kensington Expressway. The freeway is making Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents sick, and some households have even lost Loved Ones to death. East Side Collaborative Partnership ["The Partnership"], has demanded that New York State Department of Transportation be required to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement variety of Adverse Environmental Impact Assessment, but NYSDOT refuses to do so, and the Federal Highway Administration is supporting that dereliction of due process. We're still fighting back, and we need your assistance. This petition is going to be forwarded to the U.S. Federal Government, and including (to) U.S. President Joseph Biden, at The White House. Sign the "Restore Humboldt Parkway And Its Humboldt/MLK Park petition, now:

https://www.change.org/p/reconnect-and-restore-the-humboldt-parkway-neighborhood-and-its-mlk-park

02/18/2024

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗬𝗦𝗗𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗼 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗬 𝟯𝟯 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁
http://tinyurl.com/yu6fp9bv
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I'll say it again and again, "Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood is inclusive of far more households than just those near the Scajaquada Corridor. HPN extends all the way from Delaware Park (in the north), to downtown Buffalo (in the South). These majority individuals deserved to be heard, in this generation's Kensington (Expressway) Project. Were they? Did the majority of Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents want a new investment in the freeway, in the form of its being continued for another 100 years, and with a tunnel plopped in the middle of it, or did they want a Removal-focused Reconnection Project?". The )nearly) inexplicable collusion with New York State Department of Transportation for a less-than-Removal Solution, smacks of Stockholm Syndrome, at a woeful affliction level. For what Reason(s) would anyone prefer to keep a highway planted in the middle of their own, and their neighbors', living-rooms? Rather than advocate for its complete removal? {{{crickets}}}
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If the fact of the Kensington Expressway having been built to damage a Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood that was (then) turning increasingly Black and African American, isn't enough of a Reason all by itself, to oppose this generation's version. Try this. Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood contains a high incidence of the variety of Environmental Illnesses that living close by a high-speed highway is known to cause people to suffer, from. The community opposition and push-back against New York State Department of Transportation was what it is, because of both truths. In addition, the opposition was demanding that NYSDOT's proposal receive a Ruling of Finding of Significant Impact, which would have required the agency to do a full and comprehensive Environmental Impact Study [EIS]. That EIS would have established the High Incidence and Number of Adverse Health Complaints, experienced by Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents, including claims made by a (disproportionately) high Number of Residents whom live on the radial (i.e. 'side') streets connected to the Parkway.
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What happened instead, this past Friday (16-Feb-24), was absolutely dreadful: the U.S. Department of Transportation's, Federal Highway Administration fast-tracked NYSDOT's (controversial) 'Cap and Stitch' Kensington Expressway Project, by issuing a Finding of No Significant Impact [FONSI], and which cleared the way, so to speak, for the 'wrong way' Project, to commence. The Community Opposition to that Wrong Way version Project, was formed when it became apparent that the Community Support for the Initiative had omitted some key stipulations that should have been not only articulated to NYSDOT, but should have been insisted upon and adhered to.
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It was only in an 20-October-23 Letter from Restore Our Community Coalition - Buffalo, NY to NYSDOT, that we learned that group had (ever) very clearly demanded a (comprehensive) Adverse Health Impact Study be 'performed' by NYSDOT. That is not what has been caused to happen. Yet another generation of we Black and African American, East Side Buffalo Community Residents, has been caused to be exposed and injured and harmed by the noxious fumes coming from the vehicular traffic on the Kensington (Expressway). Depending on folks to suddenly (all) convert to electric vehicles, is a ludicrous Plan of Action. Here's a more realistic Course of Action, pose the question: "Why are 𝑎𝑛𝑦 East Side Buffalo Community Groups supporting NYSDOT's (current version) Kensington (Expressway) Project? Is one's fellow-neighbors' exposure to that which is making they and their Loved Ones sick, anything to celebrate? God forbid. The tunnel is a short-range Solution, that really is not even actually a Solution, at all. The removal option was a long-range Solution. There is no Phase Two Project coming down the pike to reconnect (all) Humboldt Parkway Neighborhoods, or to restore the central city park that the first Kensington (Expressway) Project damaged to the current illustration of a high-speed freeway having taken its place. This was/is it, this is what/all we get. If all this were not so very darned tragic, it might be deemed a comedy of errors.
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Understanding why the community opposition exists, will be (very) helpful, moving forward, because that Show of Community Force and Willpower did not evaporate, due to the ridiculous determination on FHWA's part. How about: We want our Community's (formerly) majestic Humboldt Parkway, with its lovely and beautifully Natural 'Great' Outdoors, and its American Maple, Dutch Elm, and Sycamore Trees, back. We also demand, in unison with ROCC, that our Humboldt Parkway Neighbors' Community Health Woes be (comprehensively) investigated. We insist that the U.S. State Of New York, do right, by Buffalo's Black East Side Community! Please share this, "each one, teach one", style.
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𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑...

The environmental impact statement (EIS) is a government document that outlines the impact of a proposed project on its surrounding environment. In the United States, these statements are mandated by federal law for certain projects.

02/17/2024

𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐘𝐒𝐃𝐎𝐓'𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭

Had New York State Department of Transportation been required to produce an Environmental Impact Statement, it would have been an important peace-offering, to both Black Buffalo, and to the East Side Buffalo Community. It would have been a Sign of Respect, however, to Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents. The absence of such, in a megaproject circumstance, no less, is absolutely unconscionable.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publications/teaching-legal-docs/teaching-legal-docs--what-is-an-environmental-impact-statement-/ #:~:text=An%20EIS%20outlines%20the%20status,relation%20to%20the%20proposed%20project.