Hasta La Creative!

Full disclosure: Despite my best attempts at maintaining some pretense of journalistic objectivity, the simple fact of the matter is that if people around me start crying, I will probably, at the very least, start to get moist-eyed.

There were a lot of people in tears at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Tuesday night as Mothers of the Movement took the stage at the Democratic National Convention. Three of the seven on stage — all mothers of young African-Americans whose lives were cut short — spoke, including Geneva Reed-Veal, who began,

One year ago yesterday, I lived the worst nightmare anyone could imagine. I watched as my daughter, Sandra Bland, was lowered into the ground in a coffin. Sandy, my fourth of five daughters, was gone. No, not on administrative leave, but on permanent leave from this earth, found hanging in a jail cell after an unlawful traffic stop and an unlawful arrest. Six other women died in custody that same month: Kindra Chapman, Alexis McGovern, Sarah Lee Circle Bear, Raynette Turner, Ralkina Jones, and Joyce Curnell. So many of our children gone but not forgotten.

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