After hearing about the tragic deaths of black youth such as Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, it emphasizes my belief that black lives matter. We have the media portraying blacks as low-life thugs, deadbeat dads, or drug dealers. But that's a negative stereotype. The media does a great job of creating or encouraging negative stereotypes of blacks in America. Just like Muslim are believed to be violent terrorists are believed to be oppressed for covering their hair and body. It's even worse if you're black and Muslim. That's the same as having two lashes across your back. They took the lives of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. But what most people don't know is that we lost three more black youths last month in Indiana. There was no media coverage for these three boys who were murdered execution style. Adam Tairab was only 17 years old. Adam Kamal Mekki was only 20 years old, and Mohammed Taha Omar was only 23 years old. These boys were all Sudanese, with two of them being Muslim and one of them being Christian. ...