Keion Hart

Keion Hart, a 24-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri, died on August 18, 2017. In the wake of his death, the city around him kept moving, but the people who loved him were forced into a different kind of time—one measured by phone calls that are hard to make, long silences that don’t feel real, and the sudden, heavy realization that someone who should still be here is not.

In the days that followed, those closest to Keion gathered to do what families and friends have done for ...