Secoriea’s Story
ATLANTA - The family of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed in Atlanta in 2020, announced a new scholarship in the girl's honor on Friday.
Secoriea Turner was killed July 4, 2020, while riding in an SUV with her mother and her mother’s friend near the Wendy’s restaurant where Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, had been killed by a white police officer just weeks earlier.
The new Secoriea's Social Justice Scholarship will provide a deserving college student $5,000 for the upcoming school year.
"After four years, we still have not received justice for Secoriea. We know we have to keep fighting and by helping a young lady go to college for social justice is a positive way to keep our baby’s spirit alive. Secoriea’s dream was to go to Spelman," said Charmaine Turner, the girl's mother.
Secoriea’s Social Justice Scholarship
The family said they wanted to turn their pain and loss into hope for other families.
The local nonprofit Black Women's Lab will serve as the fiscal agent and members of the Black Man's Lab and Let Us Make Man are working together to raise the scholarship's inaugural $10,000 goal.
"It is important that Black Women's Lab to help this family champion this cause in the memory of this beautiful soul. We want to not only continue to create safe spaces for young women of color but to also help address historical and systemic economic inequalities by being a part of an effort to provide financial support to college students," said Vanessa Cox-Logan, the founder of Black Womens Lab.
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Donations to the fund can be made here
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By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Updated July 12, 2024 10:54pm EDT
Black Woman's Lab has agreed to be the fiscal agent, and to facilitate raising funds to provide an annual scholarship to a current Spelman student committed to the study of social justice and education with the support of the Black Man's Lab and Let Us Make Man.
