The Horrible Death of Mikayla Miller, a Black LGBTQ+ youth, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts & The Role of a Biased SystemBy: Audrey Cole/TRT Reporter—MASSACHUSETTS—Today, hundreds of people rallied while chanting “say her name” and holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter” once again for a black life lost in the country, but this time it was for black LGBTQ+ teenager from Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
The rally was led by former City Councilor Tito Jackson and Violence in Boston’s Monica Cannon-Grant, according to WBZ Boston.The body of Mikayla Miller, 16, was found hanging from a tree on April 18 in her suburban hometown, one day after her mother, Calvina Strothers, said she was jumped by a group of five white teenagers.Strothers remembered her.