Anthony Tibbs was a 43-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri, and the only certainty we’re left holding is that his life ended there. A name, an age, a hometown, and the blunt finality of the words died on—followed by silence where the rest of the sentence should be. That kind of silence can feel like a second loss, because it doesn’t just take someone away; it steals the shape of what happened and replaces it with unanswered space.
In St. Louis, a city that can be loud with h
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