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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Not long after Jonny Gammage died at the hands of police in October 1995, Tim Stevens told Gammage’s parents “never believe that your son’s death was in vain.” Stevens, chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh’s Black Political Empowerment Project, has helped make sure of that. For the last 23 years he has helped organize the annual Black & White Reunion Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit, an event formed after the death of Gammage. In a scuffle with five white police officers from suburban Pittsburgh, Gammage was held face down on the pavement. He couldn’t breathe. Feeling his life slipping away, he gasped to Whitehall police Sgt. Keith Henderson, “Keith, Keith, I’m 31. I’m only 31.” ....