Latasha Morrison was attending a predominantly white evangelical church in Atlanta in 2012 when protests erupted over the murder of Trayvon Martin.
The Black teen’s killing by a neighbourhood watch volunteer rattled Atlanta’s Black communities. But when Morrison tried to pray about Martin at a small group meeting, she received no words of comfort or solidarity from her fellow churchgoers. It was as if they were living in “another world”, Morrison told the Guardian.
“You have something like this, that’s impacting you, that’s making you afraid for your children, for your friends’ children, for your relatives, and it’s not even a thought to people who say they care, that we’re connected, that we’re the body of Christ?” Morrison said.
