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Skid Row Justice March for Africa, a homeless man killed by LA police. PHOTO/LYNN ROSSI
Skid Row Justice March for Africa, a homeless man killed by LA police.
PHOTO/LYNN ROSSI

LOS ANGELES, CA — Families across this country celebrated Mother’s Day, however, there are mothers who will not have praises uttered to them . . . their sons are deceased.  Increasingly, many feel their son’s were taken unjustifiably by law enforcement.  Some even refer to this overzealous policing as the new Jim Crow!
I listened to a social justice discussion led by California Endowment C.E.O Robert K. Ross, moderated by actress/ philanthropist, Rosario Dawson and with keynote speaker, Sabrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; a young Black male murdered by the infamous community watchman, George Zimmerman.  Hundreds of people waited outside in the dreary weather hoping to get into this tightly packed venue, which was hosted by social justice art exhibitors, Manifest Justice, in the Baldwin Hills suburb of Los Angeles.
Sabrina Fulton, a mother now compelled to activism says, “It’s about admitting we have a problem we need to fix.  It’s time to stop pretending we don’t have an issue.  My son is not here to speak for himself. I am Trayvon Martin.” Mrs. Fulton now heads the Trayvon Martin Foundation where she works with other mothers who have lost their sons to senseless gun violence.”
Charly Keunang, a homeless man in the community of Skid Row—known to th
 

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