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Titiana Bogar-Curry wears orange and black every day. Though the colors independently signify gun violence prevention and grief, that’s not why she puts them on. They were her sons’ favorites, and wearing them is one small way to carry their legacy.

Bogar-Curry’s sons, Ly’Saun and Anthony, were shot and killed within three years of each other in Rochester, New York — she lost Ly’Saun, the elder of the two, in 2020, and Anthony last year. Both were teenagers, and both were lost to a cycle of community violence that plagues their hometown.

But as their mother says: “My boys are…