In the winter of 2017, a young man's life was tragically cut short over a coveted pair of sneakers. Seventeen-year-old James Anthony Smith, a junior at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., had recently received an early Christmas present from his mother: a pair of cherry-red Air Jordan 11s. It was all he had asked for, a simple wish for a teenager with aspirations of improving his grades and playing football.
On the evening of December 18th, near a playground at the Frederick Douglass
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