Jerome Williams, a 59-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, died sometime before his death notice appeared in The Detroit News on August 1, 2016. The public notice marked a quiet, formal acknowledgement that a life in the city had ended, but it offered little more than a name and a place—no narration of final hours, no explanation of what led to the loss, just the stark finality that Williams had passed away.
In the absence of a fuller public obituary, the details of Williams’s d
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