The Fear of Being a Mother With a Black Son

There are too many names that we know all too well, Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Oscar Grant, Freddie Gray, and not because of a sport that they played or a cure for cancer that they may have one day discovered, but for reasons that no one should have to be remembered for. Each of these young, black souls were murdered by white men who were in positions of power. Each of them was murdered by men who…