Tamir Rice did more than just die in a park in Cleveland. I promised myself that if a black person died here, in these pages, I would remind myself—and perhaps remind you—that they lived a life where they did more than just die, more than just march themselves into headlines and endless discourse. In photos, Tamir’s smile is slightly crooked, sometimes uncertain. In the photo that most commonly circulated after his murder, he’s smiling with tight lips, looking like he’s resting at the border between a smile and outright laughter, as if in the moment someone was coaxing him into the smile with
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