Over the past six months, numerous Globe reporters have been writing obituaries for American children shot and killed since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on Feb....

I. Introduction  On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an African-American 18 year old about to enter college, was shot to death unarmed by a policeman, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri, roughly eight...