This is one of the stories I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll read it. [5]

There are plenty of hardworking, decent Black men raising their kids in neighborhoods shaped by violence and disinvestment. Morris’s experience is proof that even those doing everything right can’t fix what systems refuse to. [4]

Adlone Morris spent more than two decades patrolling Detroit’s east side, only to watch his own sons get pulled into the same violence he was sworn to stop. [3]

Politicians and “experts” love to lean on this: Stronger Black fathers can stop gun violence. But what if the father was a cop, raising his sons with structure, discipline, and love? What if that wasn’t enough to protect them from the streets? [2]