Arrazola was found dead the next day along train tracks near the 1400 block of Case Avenue on St. Paul’s East Side. His death is being investigated as a homicide. But friends and family of Arrazola say the investigation doesn’t seem to be a priority for St. Paul police.

Black women researchers from across the country will descend on Minneapolis from states including California, Mississippi and Pennsylvania, along with other local and national attendees from varying sectors including academia and philanthropy, to participate in the learning exchange on innovative strategies to engage community. The theme of the convening is “Building a New Table with Black Women, Girls and Femmes.”

There’s still time to save the patient. But all of us are needed to clock in. Overtime is required. But the patient is worth saving. The patient hasn’t always been perfect, but we’ll never know the life the patient could have if we don’t save the patient now. Together, we can cure this cancer. Let’s at least try.

The Black Parachute journal can be started at any point in the year. The significance of the word parachute for Cobb is its relation to safe landings and being met with a support system.

How can someone be so moved by a person’s death that they fly across the country to attend his funeral, to days before the anniversary of that person's murder finding a joke about it funny?