grief

She speaks of a lack of acknowledgement of the pain felt by communities affected by a conflict that had left many without an outlet for their grief and frustration.

“Even now when I remember him the grief is such that it’s only with God's blessing that I survive the torment,” he says.

Lawrence has had a tough time at school — he’s not popular and his dad’s death a few years before has left him and his mother suspended in a state of grief.

But it certainly has an emotional through-line, one composed of equal parts anger, grief and exultation, specifically as these are expressed through Black bodies.

When we came together on Wednesday, there was a heaviness in the room and a sense of grief and loss and confusion and paralysis.