William Dunston

William Dunston was a 55-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, and what is known from the information provided is painfully simple: he died, and his death left a silence behind it that cannot be measured in dates or paperwork.

In a city built on neighborhoods where people learn the rhythm of each other’s lives by the sounds through thin walls and the familiar sight of someone walking the same block each day, a death is never just an isolated event. It becomes a tear in a wider f ...