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Guest speaker Dr. Lonise Bias, the mother of the late basketball standout Len Bias, addresses an audience of mothers who have lost children to violence during Helping Hands, Inc.’s fifth annual "Healing Hands" Mother`s Day Celebration in southeast D.C. on May 5. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Event Honors Mothers of Children Lost to Violence

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer May 10, 2017October 30, 2020

Helping Hands, Inc., held its fifth annual Mother’s Day celebration to help mothers cope with the loss of their children who have died or suffered severe injuries due to gun violence.