Recent Champion for Children award winner named to Trust board, county mayor’s staff
Growing up in Liberty City, Morris Copeland saw firsthand the challenges facing Black youth in the inner city and the difficulties sidestepping trouble on the way to adulthood. Even with supportive and well-grounded parents, Copeland’s life could have ended after an altercation left him looking down the barrel of a gun, only to be spared by the assailant. What could have been the end for a 13-year-old kid, turned out to be the moment that changed his life.