Never Forget: 5 Years After His Death, Family, Activists Continue to Build Tamir Rice’s Legacy

The tragedy of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the young black boy with the cherubic face, will never leave me. We see a lot of extrajudicial abuse and murder here at The Root, but this one is especially long-abiding, given his age, how Tamir and his sister were treated after he was shot, and, of course, the fact that those responsible received no kind of punishment for killing him And yet. And yet. There is life after this most tragic death. Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, will be building on the legacy of her son Tamir by hosting two events on Wednesday in support of…READ MORE