NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 29: (L-R) Juju Chang, Nightline Co-Anchor, ABC News, Venida Browder mother of Kalief Browder and Paul V. Prestia, Esq., Civil Rights Attorney speak at the 2016 ‘Tina Brown Live Media’s American Justice Summit’ at Gerald W. Lynch Theatre on January 29, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/WireImage)
Just days after Jay Z announced that he would be producing Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a six-part documentary series chronicling the tragic life and death of a teenage boy wrongfully imprisoned for three year at Riker’s Island, Browder’s mother, Venida, 63, died after a series of heart attacks on October 14, 2016.
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Venida Browder was laid to rest on Saturday, October 22, leaving behind five children between the ages of 39 and 24. Kalief, her youngest, committed suicide in the family home last June at the age of 22.
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Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested, tortured by prisoners and guards alike, and kept in solitary confinement for nearly 300 days because he refused to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit. In a clear violation of his Sixth Amendment right to due process of the law, Browder remained incarcerated for three years because his family could not afford $3,000 in bail to bring him home.
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NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 29: Venida Browder, mother of Kalief Browder attends the 2016 ‘Tina Brown Live Media’s American Justice Summit’ at Gerald W. Lynch Theatre on January 29, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)