We Are Fighting for a World Where MaâKhia Bryant Would Have Lived Ohio State University students stage a sit-in demonstration on April 21, 2021, in reaction to the police-perpetrated shooting and killing of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant the day before. Stephen Zenner / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images By Sixteen-year-old MaâKhia Bryantâs TikTok is going viral. In one particular video, her eyes sparkle. For a cheeky moment, her smile is wide. As she listens to Bryson Tiller, she is styling her hair and reveling in her Black girl adolescence. Devastatingly, now, millions of people are mourning the loss and remembering the life of this Black teenage girl killed in Columbus, Ohio.