The Columbus Dispatch For a parent, guiding a child through the rite of passage from high school to college usually is a challenge even in the best of times. These decidedly are not those. So as Stephanie Brown prepares to send the youngest of her three children off to college during a time dominated by a pandemic and widespread protests of racial injustice, she is all too familiar with uneasy days and nights. “From a mom’s point of view, it’s very anxiety-ridden, very stressful,” said Brown, who is quick to describe herself as the “emotional basket case” of her family. “There’s a lot of emotions going on.” Brown’s son, Gene Brown III of the Atlanta suburb of Conyers, Georgia, is one of two incoming freshmen on the Ohio State men’s basketball team. He and Zed Key Jr. of Bay Shore, New York, will join the Buckeyes on the court this…
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