Local faith leaders offer their colleagues ‘A Time to Mourn’
Tristan Strickland drove all the way from Michigan to pay his respects at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church for the funeral of Tyre Nichols to begin Feb. 1, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
David Waters
David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis.
The women who formed a grief group last summer are organizing “A Time to Mourn” — a special service of grief and lament at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Church Health Community Room in Crosstown Concourse.
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