Derrick Blackburn, a 22-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, enters the public record in fragments: a short death notice, a funeral home reference, and a gun-violence memorial page that tries to keep a name from being swallowed by statistics. The obituary notice carried through The Commercial Appeal via Legacy.com reports that Blackburn passed away on May 19, 2020, while a separate memorial listing for gun deaths places the loss on May 19, 2021 and categorizes it as gun violence in Memphi
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