All Posts Community Impact Remembering 5/14 05/14/26 Four years ago, on May 14, 2022, a senseless act of racially motivated violence forever changed Buffalo, New York. At the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue, ten cherished individuals were taken from us, and the lives of countless survivors were forever changed as the result of a tragedy that devastated families, friends, neighbors and a community. At Neighborhood Legal Services, we pause to remember and honor the lives of: Celestine Chaney Roberta Drury Andre Mackniel Katherine Massey Margus Morrison Heyward Patterson Aaron Salter, Jr. Geraldine Talley Ruth Whitfield Pearl Young Each name represents a life full of love, service, and significance—grandparents, parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors and pillars of our community. “Let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” President Barack Obama