“These lessons about self love, pushing limits, overcoming oppression, and healing, I think running can give us all that.”
Running and activism are legacies in Cox’s family. A single mother of three, she grew up in the Detroit area and started running when her friends joined the track and field team in middle school. After witnessing the joy her father gained from running, Cox was inspired to ask him for guidance.Her father, Black Panther Party member Michael Douglas Smith, embraced running in his early 20s to cope with the trauma of losing family members to gun violence and alcoholism.
“He’s such a mentally tough person. He taught me to keep going even when you feel like you can’t, and to show up for the people in your life,” Cox said. “That is the most important lesson I got from running. My father taught me to have pride in my community and pride as a Black person. He taught me to be Black was to be tough, and I’ve carried that with me throughout my life.”in college, her father brought her home and started running with her again.
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