AP’s “Big Story” yesterday was about the mothers of the slain black men and women victimized by police brutality and police racism rallying for Hillary Clinton all weekend and Monday all over black neighborhoods, in black churches, with desperate pleas for people to come out and vote for Hillary today.

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"Fill your car up with people," Fulton said. "Just make sure you're taking someone with you...It is so important. It means everything to us. It means everything to our community."

Sybrina Fulton is Trayvon Martin’s mother.

Sitting in the airy chapel at Mount Ararat Church in Brooklyn, the crowd heard from five women who had lost their children to gun violence or after contact with the police, including the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner. One by one, they shared stories of loss and grief and argued Clinton was the candidate best prepared to take on gun violence and reshape the criminal justice system.

These mothers have suffered a tragic loss no parent should ever have to endure. Why? Societal and institutional racism. White society has decided that a young black man walking a predominantly white “nice” neighborhood must be up to no good. Institutional police racism has led to black men and women to be treated differently, much more harshly, for minor offenses or just for being black. That is what these mothers’ fight and pleas are about. We must change society and institutions to treat all races equally, all people with the same kind of respect as human beings first. That is what Hillary is about in this campaign.

"She was the only candidate that reached out to us," said Sybrina Fulton, whose 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in 2012. "That showed us that our tragedies were important." She said: "It's important that we let our voices be heard and you absolutely can do that at the polls."

No other candidate from either party cared enough about these women to reach out to them, let them know that they were not alone in their despair and suffering. That someone who is running for the biggest office in the country deeply cared and vows to do everything in her power to change societal and institutional racism in this country, and fight the powerful NRA lobby for saner gun laws.

They spent the weekend before Tuesday's New York primary at churches and block parties around New York City, pushing for strong turnout from black voters, who heavily support Clinton and could give her an edge.

Strong turnout, particularly from black voters in New York, will make all the difference today If black voters turn out like they have in other primaries, for instance in Florida, Texas, Virginia, and the entire South, Hillary will win big in New York.

On Sunday morning at a church in Mount Vernon, Clinton introduced three of the mothers, describing their stories in detail and pledging to fight for tougher gun laws — an area where she has repeatedly questioned the record of her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. "Nobody else running on either side is willing to take the stands that I think must be taken," Clinton said. Sanders has struggled to win over black voters. He's won the endorsement of Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man who died in an apparent police chokehold in 2014. But Eric's mother, Gwen Carr, is backing Clinton, and others in the group are not sold on Sanders, either. "He's not connected," said Pamela Bosley, whose teenage son Terrell Bosley was shot and killed in Chicago in 2007. "Hillary took the time and came out to Roseland. She came out and walked the neighborhoods."

Hillary is literally “walking the walk”, not just “talking the talk”. That makes all the difference to this group of mothers, a group that has swelled to more than a dozen. And they let their voices be heard, loudly:

More than a dozen of these women have dubbed themselves the "Mothers of the Movement." They met privately with Clinton and each other last year at a Chicago restaurant, pouring out their stories while the Democratic presidential contender took notes. Though Clinton didn't directly ask for endorsements at the time, the women decided to get involved and have campaigned for her in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Ohio. Clinton's campaign pays their travel expenses.

This is a what a real movement looks like. These mothers, connected by tragedies, going around campaigning for a candidate they feel in their hearts truly cares for them, goes out of her way to be with them, show that they are not alone. A candidate who is ready to fight the NRA tooth and nails to bring about saner gun laws.

Why no other candidate cared enough to reach out to these women will forever remain a mystery. This is part of the reason why Hillary is embraced so strongly by the black community in this country. You have to “walk the walk”. You have to BE THERE for them, embrace them and their needs. Not just offer talk.

In the words of Geneva Reid-Veal, Sandra Bland’s mother:

"You're going to tell me that's all you've got?"

These women are fighting and pleading, desperately, as a memorial to their loved ones, so that their tragic deaths will not be in vain, because they know from their own personal experiences that there is only one candidate who will fight for them and do everything in her power to effect meaningful change so these unnecessary tragedies entirely caused by racism, blatant or below-surface, and virtually limitless gun availability because nobody is willing to stand up against the powerful and influential NRA lobby, occur less and less and eventually are eradicated.

So that their loved ones are never forgotten.

Sybrina Fulton — Treyvon Martin

Geneva Reid Veil — Sandra Bland

Gwen Carr — Eric Garner

Pamela Bosley — Terrell Bosley

Annette Holt — Blair Holt

LET THEM NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!