Community Crusader Needs Our Help
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Mandingo's health is now failing, and need our help to maintain his physical ability to live out the rest of his years comfortably.
Among his many ailments are Prostate Cancer & Dementia
his family is doing all they can to care for him, however his medical needs go beyond our financial abilities, and this is why we need your help
Who is Mandingo Tshaka:
Activist Mandingo Tshaka has earned his weight in proclamations and awards over the years, but the Bayside Historical Society, which honored him for Black History Month, thinks he is worth every ounce.
In one of his most well-known crusades, he discovered that a Flushing playground was actually a 19th-century cemetery housing predominately African and native Americans.
He got the city to rename the playground the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground, but he is still fighting to have the headstones replaced and the area treated as hallowed ground.
Mandingo, whose pipes were heard on Broadway and as a member of the Ink Spots in his heyday, stood by a piano in his smart white dinner jacket and black pants with a giant crucifix around his neck and microphone in hand.
Among his many ailments are Prostate Cancer & Dementia
his family is doing all they can to care for him, however his medical needs go beyond our financial abilities, and this is why we need your help
Who is Mandingo Tshaka:
Activist Mandingo Tshaka has earned his weight in proclamations and awards over the years, but the Bayside Historical Society, which honored him for Black History Month, thinks he is worth every ounce.
In one of his most well-known crusades, he discovered that a Flushing playground was actually a 19th-century cemetery housing predominately African and native Americans.
He got the city to rename the playground the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground, but he is still fighting to have the headstones replaced and the area treated as hallowed ground.
Mandingo, whose pipes were heard on Broadway and as a member of the Ink Spots in his heyday, stood by a piano in his smart white dinner jacket and black pants with a giant crucifix around his neck and microphone in hand.
Organizer
MARION BUNN
Organizer
New York, NY
