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Bill Cosby Wasn’t ‘Publicly Lynched’; He Hanged Himself
Just hours after Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, his publicists were busy making the media rounds. Publicist Andrew Wyatt called his recent guilty verdict a “public lynching,” and publicist Ebonee Benson invoked the story of Emmett Till—whose accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, admitted that she lied, which resulted in…
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Simeon Booker, Dean of Black Journalists, Dies at 99
Simeon Booker, who for 50 years was Washington bureau chief for Jet and Ebony magazines and at age 99 the dean of black journalists, died Sunday at an assisted-living community in Solomons, Md. He had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia, said his wife, Carol McCabe Booker, Emily Langer reported for the Washington Post. “Few reporters…
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Trailblazing Civil Rights Journalist Simeon Booker Dies at Age 99
Simeon Booker, the trailblazing black journalist known for detailing African-American life in Ebony and Jet magazines, died Sunday at the age of 99 in an assisted-living community in Maryland. Booker had many accolades under his belt, including having been the first full-time black reporter at the Washington Post. He is also credited with bringing the…
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Simeon Wright, Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till’s Kidnapping the Night of Emmett’s Brutal Murder, Dies at 74
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till who witnessed Emmett’s kidnapping and was the last to see Emmett alive, died Monday morning in his home in Countryside, Ill., at the age of 74. Wright’s wife, Annie, confirmed that her husband had died after suffering from complications from a form of bone cancer, the Chicago Tribune…
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Today Would Have Been Emmett Till’s 76th Birthday if a White Woman Didn’t Lie on Him
Emmett Till would have turned 76 today, July 25, had a white woman not lied on him. Maybe he would have had a wife and a family. Maybe he would have been surrounded by grandkids celebrating his big day right now—quietly, of course, for none of us would have ever had a cause to know…
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Mo. High School Students ‘Repair’ Vandalized Emmett Till Memorial
A group of high school students on a social justice jaunt across the country helped to restore dignity to a defaced Emmett Till memorial after they came across it in Money, Miss., last week. The Washington Post reports that the group of 24 students, part of the St. Louis-based Cultural Leadership program, traveled the country…
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Emmett Till Historical Marker in Miss. Destroyed by Vandals
A historical marker created in Mississippi to memorialize and educate the public about the 1955 kidnapping and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Till was destroyed by vandals who obliterated all visible information about the death that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Mamie Till Mobley had an open-casket funeral for her son to show how…
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On The Vital And Audacious Rage Of Valerie Castile, The Newest Member Of The "Fucked Up Mother's Club"
Last Friday, an unsurprising but still disturbing announcement reverberated across the internet. A jury in Minnesota acquitted former police officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges associated with the shooting death of Philando Castile. The announcement of the acquittal was kind of like being reminded of a slightly older, neglected wound that had started to bleed…
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Justice Department May Reopen Its Investigation Into Murder of Emmett Till
The investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till may once again be reopened by the U.S. Department of Justice, with the news coming just a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his support for pursuing and prosecuting those involved in the killing who went unpunished. “He said no one gets a pass,” Emmett’s…