Dereyaki Moore, a 28-year-old Black man from Indianola, Mississippi, was shot and killed on September 1, 2021, in his hometown, leaving behind a family and community that had watched him grow up. The public record of his life is brief but vivid: scattered notices online mark the date of his death, pairing it with little more than his age and the fact that gunfire ended his life. Yet even in those short lines, there is a sense of abrupt interruption, as if the routine of an ordinary late-summer d
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