“ In the Black community, when it comes to our son’s, there are two vital conversations we must have. One is to guard against bringing life into the world prematurely, and the other is to guard against prematurely losing one’s own life to police practices, while navigating through this world.” The closest person I had to a brother growing up in Chicago was my cousin Blake. Blake had once purchased property on the south side of the city, not far where we had grown up. With the