NR Daily: At New Year’s, a ‘Chalk Warrior’ Mothers a Culture in Need of Such Grace

'I walked down this path lonely, sad, and hopeless," self-described "chalk warrior" T explains, in words on pavement off the East River in Harlem. When you hear her message, though, she's more of a sister walking alongside strangers who she sees and brothers and sisters. She knows we so often look down when we walk. So she literally meets people where they are and communicates where she knows they look. She's been doing it for years and celebrated her 24th birthday doing it. Chark writing, she marked the passing of her grandmother ...

January 01 2018

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At New Year's, a 'Chalk Warrior' Mothers a Culture in Need of Such Grace

Kathryn Jean Lopez

'I walked down this path lonely, sad, and hopeless," self-described "chalk warrior" T explains, in words on pavement off the East River in Harlem. When you hear her message, though, she's more of a sister walking alongside strangers who she sees and brothers and sisters. She knows we so often look down when we walk. So she...

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