Derwin Hardy was a 58-year-old Black / African American man from New Orleans, Louisiana, and on February 29, 2016, his life ended.
There is something especially heavy about a name paired with a date, because it can feel like the whole of a person gets pressed into a single moment. But a person is never just the final line in a timeline. Derwin Hardy belonged to a city with its own heartbeat, its own neighborhoods and corner-store conversations, its own way of holding people close even whe
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