How does an architect become the owner of a million-dollar T-shirt business? With one bottle. Kalilah Wright, a former store planner and architect for Under Armour, started MESS in a Bottle with one bottle that contained a T-shirt with a positive message on it in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, who died just steps away from her Baltimore home while in police custody. She’d lived in Baltimore for several years after having attended Morgan State University and had immersed herself into living in the city. When the Freddie Gray incident happened, it was her first time being thrown into that type of uprising. “It was hurtful to know that in this day and age, police brutality and the things that were happening in our community were happening,” she told Blavity. She would drive to work downtown at Under Armour headquarters, where there were no burned-down buildings, and her non-Black coworkers would insist on having conversations about what was happening in the city and...