ESSENCE.com Article Features Roxanne Green

The sentencing of Dwight DeLee will occur on Tuesday for Lateisha Green's convicted murderer. But while DeLee is about to find out how much time he gets for taking Teish's life, it still doesn't bring her back.

Lateisha's mother Roxanne Green talked to ESSENCE.com about it and other subjects in a Wendy Wilson story entitled Gone Too Soon: The Lateisha Green Story.

While we're on that subject, the fight continues for those of you in New York State to pass GENDA and add transgender people to the existing Hate Crimes statute.

You may want to call your state legislators and urge them to pass this bill.