Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Growing up, Donovan Harris always admired how his mom, Calandra Revering, fought for what she believed in. She even took him to protests in a stroller.

So when Donovan took to the streets of Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, he felt he was only following the path his mother set for him. Yet when he told her about what he’d done, she told him to stay home. In a @BrightnessinBlack conversation, for the first time, she explained why.

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