Trayvon Martin could have been my brother (via
The Christian Science Monitor)
By Nakia Hill posted March 22, 2012 at 5:25 pm EDT Boston Trayvon Martin could have been one of my younger brothers. I think about their caramel and mocha skin tones, wardrobes full of hoodies, and frequent trips to the corner stores. One of them was once stopped by the police, frisked, and told he…
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