Under the beating sun at Corpening Plaza in Winston-Salem, Saturday morning, community organizers with the “How Are The Children?” campaign spent more than 15 minutes reading aloud the names of city residents who died in recent years due to violence.
The first names on the list: 17-year-old Erubey Romero Medina and 16-year-old Daniel Jiminez Millian. They died last week after a fight escalated into a shooting with multiple victims at Leinbach Park.
Shantae Graham, the founder of Full Circle Mentoring and an organizer with the initiative, warned the hundreds of attendees gathered around her that the list of names would only grow longer without immediate action…