Carl Joseph James Jr., a 27-year-old Black man, died on July 19, 2014, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at Baton Rouge General Hospital Mid City.
In the days that followed, his family’s grief became public in the way it so often does in south Louisiana: through the rhythm of church doors opening, relatives traveling in, and a community preparing to say goodbye. Notices for his services placed him at the center of a tight circle of family, naming his mother, Felicia Williams, and remembering
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