Trayvon Martin's mother pens open letter to Michael Brown's family

Trayvon Martin's mother pens open letter to Michael Brown's family
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Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, wrote an open letter of support Monday night to the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

"I wish that all of the pain that I have endured could possibly ease some of yours but it won't," Fulton wrote in the letter, published by Time. "What I can do for you is what has been done for me: pray for you then share my continuing journey as you begin yours."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.