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Terence Crutcher was just a black man living in a country that didn’t value him. A country where black men are perceived as stronger, larger and more threatening than a white man of the same size, based on just a picture.
White supremacists took his silence and his pause as an endorsement of their views — and their violence.
In a tremendous act of courage, 17-year-old Milan Bolden- Morris chose to attend her prom wearing a custom gown emblazoned with the photos of Trayvon Martin and others whose deaths gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
