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The Power House legacy

“You know me, it’s a good day to have a good day, baby. Do something, be somebody phenomenal. You are somebody phenomenal. You are great. You are amazing. You are beautiful. You are captivating. You are everything divine. You’re perfect the way you are.” — Taylor, via Facebook live, on Feb. 3

Roughly 100 people, many wearing Power House shirts, gathered in front of the former gym, now just an empty room between Chinese and Mexican restaurants.

A line of bikers rumbled into the parking lot, then joined the crowd. Their black leather jackets and vest labeled them Zodiac Motorcycle Club, the oldest African American motorcycle club in Kansas City, housed at 18th and Vine, just yards from where Taylor was killed. One rider dismounted, then embraced Harris.

Blue and silver balloons wobbled in the wind. Large balloons with Taylor’s initials bobbed taller than the rest.

“Love on each other while you’re here,” Taylor’s brother, Brian, said to the crowd gathered like a crescent moon around him.

Harris and Taylor’s son scampered around in a shirt that read “awesome like dad.” His grandmother slowed his roll momentarily to wrap a balloon around his wrist.

The crowd quieted. Together, they launched a few hundred balloons upward. Harris held her phone high, recording the shiny bulbs growing smaller against the sky. She smiled.

“He never realized how much he inspired and changed and motivated people,” she said later. “And for him to look down and see this; I know he’s smiling at us.”

Gun violence will be the subject of a new, statewide journalism project The Star is undertaking in Missouri this year in partnership with the national service program Report for America and sponsored in part by Missouri Foundation for Health. As part of this project, The Star will seek the community’s help.

To contribute, visit Report for America online at reportforamerica.Org.

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