Emmett Till

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We Are the Obama Effect

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

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

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 08.21.2009 | Chicago

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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 08.16.2009 | Chicago

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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 08.14.2009 | Chicago

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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 08.13.2009 | Chicago

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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 08.10.2009 | Chicago

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

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago

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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 08.09.2009 | Chicago

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

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago

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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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What The Inauguration Means To Me

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Carole Robertson, Indiana University School of Medicine, Goodman, Underground Railroad, Depauw University, Barack Obama Inauguration, Lorraine Wilson Patterson, Rosa Parks, Addie Mae Collins, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, African Americans, Barack Obamas Mother, Lorraine Patterson, Keith Woodard Scholarship Fund, Robert D Patterson, Mountain Top Speech, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglas, Chaney, Promised Land, Barack Obama, University of Louisville, George Rawls, We Shall Overcome, Abraham Lincoln, Spike Lee, National Association of Black Journalist, Schwerner, So You Want to Be a Doctor, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Benjamin Carson, Harriet Tubman, Four Little Girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Living News

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 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, Paris Hilton, Notting Hill Riots, Reality TV, John McCain, Britney Spears, Emmett Till, Bob Herbert, Scottsboro, Racism, UK Racism, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Richard Wright, Paris Hilton Mccain Ad, Obama Paris Hilton, Politics News

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 07.05.2008 | Politics

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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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