The project garnered several large donations, loans from prominent community organizations like the Carl Pohlad Foundation, and the potential commitment of state bonding money.

[13] Levy Armstrong co-founded Brotherhood Inc., an organization dedicated to helping young African American men stay away from gang activity and prison.

Though she won the election unopposed on the ballot, Levy Armstrong faced criticism from McAfee who contended that she was too focused on issues of police brutality to the neglect of concerns such as other violent crime against African Americans.

[15] In November 2015, following the shooting death of Jamar Clark at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, Levy Armstrong was involved in a human blockade of Interstate 94.

[21] Her successor at the chapter, Jason Sole, credited Levy Armstrong for aligning the more policy- and paperwork-oriented organization with the Black Lives Matter movement.

[22] A year after the death of Jamar Clark, Levy Armstrong announced her intention to run for mayor of Minneapolis in the city's 2017 election as a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.

[25] In 2020, Levy Armstrong participated in local protests over the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, by a white Minneapolis police officer.

The incident resulted in Levy Armstrong being a named party in a U.S. District Court complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota over the right to peaceful protest.

A 100-person protest group led by Levy Armstrong's Racial Justice Network that gathered outside Kroll's home in Hugo, Minnesota, on August 15, 2020, drew controversy.

"[1] After District County Judge Joseph Klein ruled in favor of the lawsuit, forcing Minneapolis to rescind its plan to eliminate single-family zoning, Levy Armstrong celebrated the decision as a "major victory.