Countless mothers in Chicago will wake up on Mother’s Day today without the children they have lost to gun violence. 'I’ve been crying for eight years.'
Rochetta Tyler talks about her daughter, Michelle, at her Chicago home on May 11, 2023. Tyler lost her daughter to gun violence in 2015 when Michelle was 20.
This Mother’s Day, the mothers will meet to share their personal stories of anxiety, grief and heartbreak at the third annual Heal Your Heart Foundation’s Mother’s Day brunch in Bronzeville. Sponsors of the brunch, to be held at the Tolton Heritage Center at St. Elizabeth’s Hall, 44 E. 41st St., are the Chicago Survivors organization, the Chicago chapter of the National Black MBA Association, Bridge the Gap and Walmart.
And this year, they’ll also talk about turning their grief into political action. For grieving parents, it’s difficult to go back to work while dealing with the loss, Mitchell said, so the mothers are joining forces with state Rep. Kambium “Kam” Buckner to draft legislation that would allow parents who have suffered the death of a child by gun violence to apply for short-term disability while they grieve.
She could not muster up the strength to rush to UChicago Medicine to see another child fighting for his life. In 2014, her first son, Vincent Denny, 16, was killed in a high-speed chase when a car crashed into a tree in Ellis Park near 39th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue and he was thrown out a windshield. He lived two weeks before he was pronounced dead on Sept 21.
Even though the shooting happened in a public park, there were no cameras, Ford said. She has five remaining children ages 34, 33, 32, 19 and 9, and has been fighting with city housing officials to be relocated from her subsidized apartment in North Kenwood ever since, she said.Sherry Campbell-Nolen stands with a plaque displaying an image of her son, Akaeem, at an event space in the 600 block of East 103rd Street, May 10, 2023, in Chicago.
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