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A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. Thirty-five years later, there’s still no sidewalk.

By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly KFF Health News DURHAM, N.C. — It’s been 35 years since John Parker died after a pickup collided with the bike he was riding on Cheek Road in east Durham before school. He was 6. His mother, Deborah Melvin-Muse, doesn’t display photos of him, the second-youngest of six children. His brother’s birthday […]

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