Mom's Grief Spotlighted in Anti-Gun Violence Super Bowl Ad by Bloomberg Presidential Campaign
Houston-area mom Calandrian Simpson-Kemp lost her 20-year-old son George to gun violence in 2013 after he and his friends got into a fight with a group of teens in Richmond, Texas. George, a mechanics student who played free safety on both his college and high school football teams and had aspirations to join the NFL, was fatally shot. “I kept saying, ‘You cannot tell me that the child I gave birth to is no longer here,’” says Simpson-Kemp, who a year after her son’s death joinedMoms Demand Action, a group devoted to gun violence prevention....