Zaevion Dobson was posthumously awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage on Wednesday during the ESPYs presentation.
His mother, Zenobia, and brothers Zack Dobson and Markaystin Taylor accepted the award in his honor. Zenobia Dobson used the opportunity to tell everyone the kind of person her 15-year-old son was in life, both before and during his heroic, life-ending action of shielding two girls from gunfire in December in Knoxville, Tenn.
Then she went even further.
Following up on the show-opening comments of LeBron Wade, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul, she called for athletes and all Americans to take action against the kind of gun violence that took the life of her son and countless other people.