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The shepherd of Black grief in Minneapolis

In the 35 years at Estes Funeral Chapel, where Tracy Wesley serves as funeral director and CEO, he has done thousands of funerals and borne witness to any number of traumas in Minneapolis' Black community. Recently, he's done funerals for Black men whose names have become synonymous with a nationwide movement toward police reform: Jamar Clark, George Floyd, Daunte Wright. But he's also done funerals for scores of young people slain in gang-related violence.

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