Tarriq Curtis Childs, a 28-year-old Black man who grew up in Northeast Washington, DC and was living in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland, spent his life moving back and forth between hardship and hope. As a baby, he and his teenage mother lived in a group home for young moms in the city, where a volunteer tutor named Joanne met them and became an informal mentor to him. She would drive across town to pick him up from his housing project in Northeast and take him to parks, museums, swimming pools,
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