Wayne Ellington: The painful arc of becoming an anti-gun activist
Posted Aug 25, 2016
Even the national championship he won with Roy Williams at UNC hadn’t prepared Wayne Ellington for this moment. He clutched a sheet of paper in his right hand and grasped to find the words that would persuade even one of these youths to steer clear of the gun violence that is epidemic in cities like Philadelphia – where a person is shot, on average, every six hours.
(The Undefeated)
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