On July 4, 2013, in Chicago, 36-year-old Theodis L. Young, a Black man, crossed into the holiday afternoon with no way of knowing his name would soon be added to the city's grim roll of the dead. Independence Day on the South Side was supposed to be a time of barbecues, family gatherings, and fireworks, but for him it became a date stamped forever with the moment his life was cut short by gunfire. Newspapers and later memorial projects would reduce him to a line of data—name, age, cause of dea
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