THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT 07
THE DAILY NEWS TAKES AN IN-DEPTH LOOK INTO THE NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BALL STATE, MUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.
In her honor It was a Sunday. It was ten days after Sarah Black’s sister started her newest internship at the Conservator Center in North Carolina to pursue her dreams. “It’s Alex. She’s dead. She’s gone.” Running down the stairs of her parents’ home, Black stared into the teary eyes of her parents, hoping they would say her younger sister’s words were all a joke. They didn’t. Black’s older sister died in a lion attack Dec. 30, 2018. “We were told she did everything she should’ve done,” Sarah Black said. “But, the lion just never refocused on the food. It was just focused on her. “If it hadn’t come to her, it could’ve gone out into the rest of the park, and there were school groups. There were children. There were families. She probably knew that she was the last line of defense.”
Junior elementary education major Sarah Black dedicates her performances with the University Singers to her sister. Tierra Harris | Reporter
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” After hearing the devastating news from her family, the junior elementary education major reached out to her second family at Ball State for comfort. “The first thing I did was text my friends in Singers.” Black said. “I said, ‘I don’t know who to talk to right now, but I feel like I need to tell someone,’ and they were all there for me.” As a token to Alex and the rest of the Black family, senior communications major Maria Mark reached out and asked if the University Singers could perform at the funeral. Together, the Singers sang the a capella song “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
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Sarah Black wears a necklace that reminds her of her sister, Alex Black, April 16, 2019. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN
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