Esaw Snipes-Garner, activist and widow of Eric Garner, who was killed in an act of police violence, has sadly died at age 58.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, led a “Mothers Of The Movement” workshop during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Conference.
For Black mothers today, the fear of losing a child to police violence is a deeply personal and painful reminder of a long history of racial injustice. This fear isn’t just a modern-day concern—it echoes past injustices like family separations during slavery and coerced sterilizations.