Michelle Obama will announce Friday that the Obama Presidential Center, slated to open in 2025 on the South Side, will feature a public space dedicated to Hadiya Pendleton so that future generations will remember her story.
Hadiya Pendleton made sure to send her mother a picture of her outfit each day of her trip to Washington, where she and her high school bandmates performed at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
Days after the January 2013 inauguration, Hadiya was fatally shot at a South Side park about a mile north of the Obamas’ Kenwood home when a gunman fired into a crowd. Outrage over her slaying reverberated across the nation, and she became a symbol for the anti-gun violence movement in Chicago and beyond., including Michelle Obama, who began a years-long friendship with Cowley-Pendleton afterward.
“The way her story ended, I think, was abrupt,” Cowley-Pendleton said. “It was 15 years. I never saw that coming. So for her name to keep being spoken, she continues to live on and she continues to be a beacon of light.” Cowley-Pendleton said the week leading up to Saturday, the nine-year mark of Hadiya’s death, comes with a spike of anxiety, memories resurfacing at a swifter pace. For the most part, though, it’s the same as any other week.Hadiya Pendleton's cousin shows a photograph of Pendleton, right, with her mother Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, on Jan. 30, 2013.
“It’s terrible, the way that our youth, their childhoods are being ripped from them,” Cowley-Pendleton said. “What motivates me is to want things to be better, right? The frustration comes in we have people here who need to really step back from the ‘politics’ of the violence that’s happening here in Chicago and just really do something about it. Period.”
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