Yesterday Sister Rose called me with the information for three homicide prayer vigils today. I am the back-up person to send out email notices of vigils. First, she asked me if I was planning to attend and I said yes. She had called a number of the regulars and for various reasons they could not make it. Since I was going to be there she gave me the list of three males that had been shot and killed in North Central Milwaukee last week. She had the names of the three men but told me not to use them since the police had not yet released the names to media yet.

This morning it was a pastor in the area, Sister and me at the first two vigils and then sister and me at the last one. One line about each of the three men appeared in the paper this morning so was able to release the names on her sheet this morning. Last Saturday morning, Jason J. Earl, 30, was shot and killed in the 1200 block of W. Cheery. Last Thursday, Joseph R. Jenkins, 26, was shot and killed in 400 block of East Burleigh. Last Friday, Frederick C. Martin. 24, was shot and killed in the 900 block of Center street.
At each location there were balloons, empty liquor bottles, candles and other remembers of the three young men. Sister was unable to reach the families of the three victims which, when present, add some personal memories of the victim. However, at the second vigil there were some young men, brother and cousins and a woman around the site. They had their car door open with very loud rap music playing. They were not expecting us and when they saw what we up to, praying, they went off to the side to continue their conversation. It was like the three of us were in another world than the young men and woman remembering their brother and cousin.
When I came home I saw on the Coalition for Justice web page some twitter messages under the tag “Remember Her Name” or Remember His Name.” There were one links in the local newspapers where these persons lived and died. When seeing the names, ages and where each of three young men who were shot and killed last Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Milwaukee I thought these were black lives that mattered but who very few remembered or even knew. Who were these three special lives that were lost to senseless violence? Perhaps if we knew these young African American males personally and by name things would be different newspaper today, is all we know. Black Lives Matter and these three young men really matters. Remember the names of our three brothers, Fredrick, Jason and Joseph. RIP we would respond in another way than just another annoyers killing of young black men. For the names, revealed in the

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