Fashion Nova and The Shade Room donating $100K in honor of Ma’Khia Bryant

Fashion Nova is partnering with The Shade Room to promote peace in response to the death of Ma’Khia Bryant.

The Shade Room and Fashion Nova Collaborate

Fashion Nova Cares is donating $100K to Peace4Kids’ ROCMove Initiative alongside The Shade Room.

Initiatives

ROCMove is a multigenerational initiative led predominantly by women and girls with lived experience in foster care. It’s designed to uplift media and interactive training to highlight stories of power, transformation and resilience, evolving our country’s negative perception of foster care.

Peace4Kids is the name of the podcast using to broadcast their voices.

Ma’Khia Bryant

16-year,old Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon on April 20, minutes after the verdict was handed down in the Derek Chauvin trial.

According to relatives, Ma’Khia called 911 twice to report that a girl was trying to stab her. Reardon was one of the few officers who responded to the scene.

MaKhia Bryant, Photo Credit: Facebook

CNN reports, Bryant had been living as a foster child when the shooting happened.
Three 911 calls were made at the foster home she lived in, one of which the caller used Bryant’s sister’s name to make a threat “to kill someone in their foster home if she couldn’t be placed in a different home.”

“The system is broken and we just as a country have not come to terms with that,” says Cheryl Grills, a professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University who has promoted and investigated child welfare reform. “They have a duty to protect and ensure a child’s well-being and that’s where I see the system failing miserably.”

On April 30th, Ma’Khia Bryant was remembered at her celebration of life for how smart she was, her love for doing hair and making TikTok videos.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is currently investigating the shooting.

The attorney representing Bryant’s family called for a federal investigation into her death.