Save the whales!
You’ve read a lot of signs like that in your life, online and real-time. Save the whales or the environment, penguins or tigers, fish, trees, or grasses, there’s always something about to disappear, and you know that when it’s gone, it’s gone.
But what about people? Aren’t they in trouble, too? In the new book “Endangered” by Jean Love Cush, who’s going to save young black men?
Janae Williams had always told her son, Malik, not to run when the cops came. It was worse if you did, she said. So while he was hanging out on a Philadelphia street corner with his friends and sirens came their way, Malik stood still—and was arrested for the murder of a boy he knew.
But, of course, Malik didn’t do it. Janae knew that her son was innocent. He was just 15 years old, a good-enough student, her baby. She’d raised him right–his father certainly had no hand in it—and Malik wasn’t capable of killing.
Still, he was in jail and the court system was a maze that Janae couldn’t quite figure out. She wanted Malik home, no matter what—even if it took putting her trust in an unusual source who claimed he could help her son.
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