Corry Corvette Shaw Jr., a 20-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on July 24, 2015.
In the days that followed, the only public record of what happened came in the spare language of a death notice: his name, the date he died, and the arrangements handled by E. H. Ford Mortuary in Memphis—details that often signal a family trying to move through grief while keeping the rest of the story private. The notice was published in The Commercial Appeal on August 2, 2015, pointing mo
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