After her son was killed, hearing the stories of how he impacted others has given this mom hope
Kamari Perry’s mother has a nickname for him inspired by his positivity: Kamari Mandela. “Apparently he had a big impact on his peers that I did not know about,” Battle said. After he died last summer at age 16, people who knew him told her countless stories about how Kamari helped them. “Everybody around the board had a positive story to tell about how he impacted their life,” she said. “He encouraged them. He pushed them. He gave them hope to keep going.” The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute practices Seven Principles of Peace to help families heal and find peace after losing a loved one to homicide. One of those principles is hope. She says Kamari loved to give people quotes and sayings. One is on the back of a bright blue t-shirt she wears: “A loss today is a reason to win tomorrow.” She plans to create a nonprofit as his legacy called Mari’s World Heart of Hope.
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