NFL Network producers get players involved to tell the stories of Black victims of hate crimes, injustice
It was a picture worth a thousand memories to Chelsea Stark-Jones.
The NFL Network producer paused and pondered while working in December on a particular installment of the “Say Their Stories” series, which involved delicately conveying the significance of Sharonda Coleman-Singleton — one of nine lives lost in a June 2015 mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Stark-Jones was touched as she looked through images Coleman-Singleton's family had submitted for the four-minute video.
"There’s a photo of her, sitting at a restaurant,” Stark-Jones recalled during an interview with USA TODAY Sports. Coleman-Singleton, who was 45 when she was killed during a Bible study session, was captured in the picture wearing a striped dress, a broad smile complementing her short-cropped hair. “It reminded me of my mother.
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