Jimmie Driskell, a 34-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on June 10, 2010, leaving behind a sudden silence that the city could only begin to name in the days that followed. In the brief public notices that marked his passing, the emphasis fell less on how it happened than on the fact that it did, and on the people who were left to carry the weight of it.
Plans for goodbyes came together through N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home in Memphis, with a visitation scheduled for Friday
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