Emmett Till

We Shouldn't Make Excuses For Racism

Asher Huey | Posted 03.30.2012

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Asher Huey

Friday morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo Rivera stated, "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman wa...

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Trayvon Martin: Another Crime of Absurdity

Byron Williams | Posted 03.30.2012

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Byron Williams

Beyond the absurdity of a death that should not have occurred, demands of "Justice for Trayvon Martin," though well intentioned, are equally absurd. A desire that Zimmerman be brought to trial should not be conflated with justice for a 17-year-old who has taken his last breath.

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Renew the Movement to Fight for Civil Rights

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Oprah Winfrey, Trayvon Martin, Kerner Report, Emmett Till, African Americans, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Black Voices News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

Now we must choose: We will decide if Trayvon Martin's death is a moment, or becomes the spark for a movement. We can't bring him back. But we can make his voice louder in death than it could be in his short life.

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Trayvon, Emmett And Dangerous Black Bodies

The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.23.2012

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The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.

It is dangerous still, it seems, to be a black boy. You can be walking down the street, wearing a hoodie, look "dangerous," and someone will chase you and kill you dead.

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Emmett Till and Dr. King's Memorial

Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2011

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Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.

Americans, especially African Americans, must not walk through the King national memorial without remembering our dead, without calling the names of those we know and acknowledging the nameless souls who sacrificed for a more just world.

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Dr. King, a Monumental Man

Janet Langhart Cohen | Posted 10.21.2011

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Janet Langhart Cohen

Lke Dr. King, we have not yet arrived in the Promised Land. Yes, there's a black man in the White House. Barack Obama is there as President of the United States. But one man doesn't erase the persistence of racism in America and its grim consequences.

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Burr Oak Tragedy's Mastermind Sentenced To 12 Years

Posted 09.07.2011

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Fifty-one-year-old Carolyn Towns, of Blue Island, pleaded guilty and was convicted of a bevy of charges related to her oversight of an under-the-table...

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Barbour-Backed Civil Rights Museum Approved By Mississippi Lawmakers

AP | By SHELIA BYRD | Posted 06.04.2011

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JACKSON, Miss. -- Lawmakers on Monday approved a bill authorizing the multimillion-dollar construction of two new Mississippi museums – one devo...

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Death in Mississippi: Lynching or Suicide?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dexter Rogers

Slice the pie as you choose but an African-American hanging from a tree in Mississippi is a big deal. So, I humbly ask again, where is the media coverage?

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28 Days of Peace in Chicago

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Emmett Till, Robert Freeman, Martin Luther King, Summer, Barack Obama, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Peace, Chicago News
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston

This is another bloody summer in Chicago. A summer tragically highlighted by the execution-style death of Robert Freeman. A 13-year-old boy shot 22 times near his South Side home.

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We Are the Obama Effect

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Derrion Albert Beating, Derrion Albert, Birther-Movement, Emmett Till, Global Grind, Barack Obama Race, Race, Barack Obama, New York News
Sara Haile-Mariam

Derrion Albert's death should resonate from coast to coast, because his early departure represents a lost opportunity; a life that could have given back has been taken.

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Burr Oak Cemetery Opening Online Records Database

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities plan to give the public access to a searchable online database of nearly 100,000 graves at the historic black cemetery...

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Emmett Till's Casket Could Be Moved To Mississippi Museum From Desecrated Cemetery

SouthtownStar | LAUREN FITZPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emmett Till's glass-topped casket that showed evidence of his death by lynching in 1955 turned up last week in the storage shed of an Alsip cemetery e...

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State Sues Burr Oak As Sheriff Asks Third Party To Run Desecrated Cemetery (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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(SCROLL DOWN FOR SLIDESHOW) Saying that his office is overwhelmed having assumed virtual responsibility for managing Burr Oak Cemetery, Cook County S...

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Emmett Till's Old Casket Moved From Burr Oak As Civil Rights Icon Is Catalyst Once Again

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end o...

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Emmett Till's Original Casket Found Rusting In Shack At Burr Oak Cemetery

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALSIP, Ill. — Some horrified relatives who searched Friday for loved ones' plots at a historic black cemetery at the center of a gravedigging sc...

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Burr Oak Cemetery: 4 Charged With Dismembering At Least 300 Bodies In Graveyard Scam

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALSIP, Ill. — (AP) Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dump...

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Burr Oak Cemetery Alsip, IL: 4 Accused Of Digging Up Bodies For Profit

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALSIP, Ill. — Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping s...

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Emmett Till Memorial Fund Scam Part Of Burr Oak Cemetery Scheme

Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 05.25.2011

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The woman behind a long-running scheme to dig up bodies and resell the grave sites in a historic African American cemetery also embezzled funds from a...

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What The Inauguration Means To Me

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Robert D. Patterson

The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.

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McCain's Race Ad

Ellen Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Feldman

The impetus for the absurd McCain ad was Obama's riotous European welcome. There is a certain irony in that as this summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Notting Hill Riots.

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When Rove Calls Obama Arrogant, He Means "Uppity"

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Ridley

Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.

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