Person: Emmett Till

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<p>Wright Thompson has written something remarkable, a triumph of forensic research that has never been more needed. Picture: Evan France</p>

culture

Book review: Killing of a black boy whitewashed

'The Barn' is a glimpse of a nation’s troubled past that offers insight in to the tortured present, and makes you worry about the bleak future

Maeve Higgins: Identifying as white in the made-up race racket

comment-analysis

Welcome to Trumplandia - Reflections from a changed America

general

Rapper 'ashamed' of autism lyric

world

Zimmerman verdict sparks protests

general

Pepsi drops Lil Wayne over song

Lil Wayne lyric angers family of murdered teenager

Epic Records is going to “great efforts” to take down a new Future remix leaked with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of a black teenager murdered in the 1950s.

Thu, 14 Feb, 2013

The Devil Deryl Dedmon

He’s in jail for a hate crime — but his black friends disagree. Tony Dokoupil reports

Sat, 28 Apr, 2012

Cemetery workers made thousands in grave scheme, claim officials

Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 (€215,000) in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said today.

Fri, 10 Jul, 2009

Mississippi Burning relived with exhumation

US FEDERAL investigators have unearthed a concrete vault containing Emmett Till’s casket at a suburban Chicago, Illinois cemetery, hoping to find clues into his 1955 slaying in Mississippi that became a key event in the civil rights movement and inspired the movie Mississippi Burning.

Thu, 02 Jun, 2005