Marcus Christian Joins the ‘Everyday’ Fight Against Breast Cancer

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Looking back, Marcus Christian can be honest with himself when it came to breast cancer. “I wasn’t serious,” he said. His mother, Carolyn Christian, had her first battle with the deadly disease at age 21. “She fought it, and she won that battle. Ten years later, I was born,” said Marcus, CEO of Everyday Pink, a breast cancer awareness brand. Shortly after he graduated from Huffman High School in 2003, his mother was diagnosed again. This time, the cancer was a little more aggressive than before. That same year, she would pass away at the age of 54. “God blessed me with having her to raise me all those years,” Christian said. “I thank God for that time with her because He led her through her fight when she was 21. She was able to raise me and to see me graduate from high school, and then she went on home. Her assignment was over.” Christian attended Alabama State University (ASU), in Montgomery, Alabama, after high school, and his life wasn’t focused, he said. “I didn’t take breast cancer seriously at that time. I didn’t take [my mother] being sick seriously,” he said....