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WaPo: Many black people can’t march for justice. They’re too busy trying to survive the lack of it.

HANDOUT:Kiesha Davis (right) with her mom, Annie Davis, in Southeast D.C. (Niki Mock)

Kiesha Davis had no idea that the boy who sat near her in sixth grade couldn’t read.

She didn’t learn that until they were in their 30s, after they had become close friends, and he confessed to her that he was going to night school to learn what he hadn’t in D.C. public schools.

“I was just in pieces,” she recalls. “That hurt my heart because I didn’t know. I didn’t know he couldn’t read, because the teacher never called on him.”

Davis was born and raised in the nation’s capital. Most of her life has played out within a short drive from the White House.

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