
Ta’Kiya Young's shooting highlights sobering reality for Black pregnant women in America
Nadine Young left her home in Ohio under the crushing weight of grief. By the end of 1989, the young mother of four had lost both of her parents, a stillborn baby girl and her sister. She packed up and moved to Mississippi for nearly a decade, where she gave birth to a fifth son. She taught her boys to be respectable and to always do what police asked.
“I had major, major talks with them, so if they had any encounters they complied and did whatever they needed to do so they wouldn’t lose their
“I had major, major talks with them, so if they had any encounters they complied and did whatever they needed to do so they wouldn’t lose their