A LOSS LIKE NO OTHER
HE SMILES as he sits alongside his famous mom and a friend, raising his glass in a toast to ring in the new year.
“To inclusivity and progress,” Ian Alexander Jr and his mom Regina King agree as the trio clink glasses in a video clip on CNN’s New Year’s Eve TV show. Ian is the son of Regina, one of Hollywood’s most successful stars and an actress who has helped shatter the glass ceiling for people of colour in the movie industry.
She smiles broadly in the video, looking forward to a new year filled with possibility and opportunity. But just three weeks later, her world fell apart. Ian, her
