October 16, 2017 | By Carole Hawkins  Since the death of her only son, Corliss Davis has remade herself into a community activist. A board member for anti-crime and anti-violence groups. A participant in the crime watch for her Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood. It won’t bring back her son, Mark Davis, who was killed in a drive-by shooting July 26, 1992, just two days short of his 19th birthday. It doesn’t prevent the depression that strikes at random moments, making it hard to get out of bed. Or stop the numbness that makes mistakes at work feel trivial. She’s lost two jobs and a marriage to emotional distress. But she figures, perhaps she’d earn some peace if she could keep another mother from going through what she did. Her daughter, Tia Harvey, has been a witness to the crusades. “She’s buried herself in all of the community work. I feel like if she knew what happened, she’d be able to deal with this better,” Tia said. There aren’t... Read More