Darius M. Frazier, a 37-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, died on September 20, 2011, in a killing that left only a thin public record behind. The available online accounts agree that he was shot to death that day in the Woodlawn area, at or near the intersection of 1st Avenue North and 52nd Street. What emerges from those sources is the outline of a life abruptly interrupted and a death that, at least in public view, never received the kind of detailed follow-up that often fills in t
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