Denair Eugene Love, 27, a Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on May 1, 2015, and the news of his passing spread in the quiet, formal language of a death notice—his name, his age, the date—followed by the practical details that families lean on when grief turns logistical: arrangements handled by Signature Funeral Home in Memphis.
What the public notices did not say—how he died, what happened in the hours that led to it—became its own kind of absence. In the space where circu
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