Photo by Michael Kandel.

Rallies are planned for tonight and this Saturday to protest the killing of Michael Brown in Ferugson, Mo. and increased police militarization.

Tonight’s rally, organized by several groups including No FEAR Coalition, WPFW Radio and Code Pink, will begin at 4 p.m. outside the Department of Justice’s headquarters.

“Michael’s murder is symptomatic of a systemic, racist culture that condones the murder and incarceration of black boys and men at rates highly disproportionate to the general population. U.S. police or vigilantes kill a black man every 28 hours,” Marsha Coleman-Abedayo of No FEAR Coalition said in a release. “We need the full support of the Attorney General’s office to make sure that Michael Brown is not simply another name added to the anonymous statistics and meaningless deaths of African-Americans at the mercy of a merciless system.”

A march to Busboys and Poets’ 5th and K streets NW location will follow the rally for a town hall featuring actor Danny Glover via Skype and Hilary Shelton from the NAACP’s Washington office.

As the City Paper first reported, a march will be held Saturday in the hopes of shutting down the H Street NE corridor. It begins at 7:30 p.m. near Union Station.

A protest organized by the same groups, including the National Black United Front, the ANSWER Coalition and We Act Radio, shut down streets in Chinatown this weekend.