Mandell Ledet Duplessis, also reported as Mandela Duplessis, was a 24-year-old Black man who died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 2006, a loss that tore through his family and left his mother searching for answers in a city where answers could be hard to hold onto.
In the months after Hurricane Katrina, people were still living in FEMA trailers, trying to stitch together something like normal life in neighborhoods that had been shaken to the core. In August 2006, Duplessis walked
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