Keyvon Tahlil Jarrett On a warm Tuesday evening, September 6, 2022, 28-year-old Edwin “Ed” Swan pulled into the McDonald’s on College Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas -- a routine stop that would become the last moments of his life. Just days away from his 29th birthday, Swan was a vibrant young man with a bright future. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on September 7, 1993, he was the son of Monica J. Swan and Marvin Griswold. Raised with faith (baptized at New Bethel Baptist C

Alongside an Oklahoma state highway near Westville in Adair County stands a modest white frame church that has anchored a community through removal, statehood, and the passage of more than 180 years.⁠ Adair County, carved in 1907 from the Going Snake and Flint districts of the Cherokee Nation and named for a prominent Cherokee family, carries the quiet weight of that history. Its county seat, Stilwell, incorporated in 1897, grew around railroads and agriculture--ood processin