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World Service,2 mins
Writing obituaries for living people: the idea behind The Black Obituary Project
The Cultural FrontlineAvailable for over a year
Writer Ja'han Jones describes how police shootings in the US inspired his project. He asks contributors to write obituaries for themselves, as a way of highlighting the often negative way that black men and women are described by the media after they are killed. (Photo: a woman grieving Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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