by Dianne Liuzzi Hagan

About the author: Dianne Liuzzi Hagan is a freelance writer.

The tragedy of Jonny Gammage’s death in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, has touched all of America. [Gammage, who is black, was driving a Jaguar owned by his cousin, Pittsburgh Steeler Ray Seals, through a white neighborhood at night in October 1995. He was pulled over for a minor traffic violation by white police officers. Seven minutes later, he was dead by suffocation.] How could this have happened in America in 1995? More than that, how many African American men must die as they go about their normal course of business in their lives. It is frightening for those of us who have husbands, sons, fathers or brothers of color to think that one day we may receive the same phone call Jonny Gammage&rsquo...