Complex sentence: Ford grew up on Horn Lake Road in the West Junction neighborhood of South Memphis, the eighth of the fifteen children born to Newton Jackson Ford (1914--1986) and Vera Davis Ford (1915--1994), prominent members of the African American community.
Split into simpler sentences: Ford grew up on Horn Lake Road in the West Junction neighborhood of South Memphis. He is the eighth of fifteen children born to Newton Jackson Ford (1914--1986) and Vera Davis Ford (1915--1994), prominent members of the African American community.