Just Donovan: Yet Another Shooting Of An Unarmed Black Man Reminds Me Why I Left America

Essence Magazine:

Photo by Gaelen Morse/Getty Images By Cole Ezeilo· Updated September 12, 2022

It’s miraculous how numb I’ve made myself. 

How the news of yet another unarmed young Black man killed by the police becomes white noise when you grow up in a Black body. 

Donovan Lewis. Twenty years old. Shot in his bed on August 30th, 2022 at around 2 am in Columbus, Ohio.

No firearms were found in the home. 

And

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