Ma Siss's place: The Mission
They were an unlikely pair, a college-educated white evangelical from Richmond and a semiliterate 65-year-old African-American great-grandmother born into poverty in rural Alabama. But they were joined together by the civic heartbreak of that summer of 2002: the death of 10-year-old Trina Persad. (Full article: 4395 words)
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