“And for Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old high school student, it was carrying candy while walking through a gated community in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012; he died after George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator, confronted Martin and shot him in the chest. When Trayvon Martin was shot – and even more so when George Zimmerman was later acquitted – mothers of Black boys nationwide went into a state of emergency, and I was no different.”

“And for Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old high school student, it was carrying candy while walking through a gated community in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012; he died after George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator, confronted Martin and shot him in the chest. When Trayvon Martin was shot – and even more so when George Zimmerman was later acquitted – mothers of Black boys nationwide went into a state of emergency, and I was no different.”

— Rachel Dolezal