As another college football season fades into a sea of confetti and celebration, we owe it to ourselves, the institutions we cheer for, and the hideous history of players dying while playing college football to remember the tragedy that occurred at Maryland last year and to demand change
The shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub claimed 49 lives and altered countless others. Nine months later, the tragedy still shapes three of those most deeply affected: two survivors and the brother of the youngest victim, Akyra Murray. Their names are Tiara, Patience, and Alex, and they are at once isolated by the individual nature of their suffering and deeply drawn to the only other people who remotely understand: each other.
