Archie Edward Herring Jr., a 30-year-old Black man, lived most of his brief life in western Tennessee, where family, church, and work wove together the rhythms of his days until his death on June 3, 2009, abruptly severed those ties. Public records preserve only a thin outline: a birth on January 26, 1979, a life that unfolded in and around Fayette County, and then a death in early summer 2009 that left him forever frozen at thirty. Over time, his name settled into the quiet places where the dea
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