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Seven years after George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman is now suing Martin’s family, prosecutors and others involved in the case. In his suit, Zimmerman claims that the case rested on false evidence. The suit, according to the Miami Herald, claims information in a documentary about the case accuses the Martin family of engineering false […]

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A white homeowner who fatally shot an unarmed black man after reporting “hoodlums” in his neighborhood should get a new trial because the prosecutor gratuitously injected race in his closing argument, North Carolina’s second-highest court ruled Tuesday. In the split 2-1 decision, the panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled […]

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Voting rights activist and Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died at the hands of an Alabama State Trooper on February 26, 1965, which inspired the first of the SCLC marches in Selma. It would take 42 years before his family saw justice. Jackson was born December 16, 1938 in Marion, Ala. He served as the deacon […]

Seventy years ago in Lyons, Ga., a Black man was murdered in front of his family by a violent White mob. Despite his wife’s protests and her best efforts, the perpetrators were never put behind bars. Robert “Duck” Mallard was a traveling salesman and his wife, Amy Mallard, was a college-educated schoolteacher. The couple lived […]

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Someone shot at the sign that marks where Emmett Till's body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.

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A federal report sent to congress in March noted that the 1955 case would be reopened in light of unspecified new information.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying […]

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The slayings of two black men in Baton Rouge last week were likely racially motivated, police said Sunday, and a suspect — a 23-year-old white man — was in custody. In both shootings the gunman fired from his car then walked up to the victims as they were lying on […]

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A mistrial was declared in the case of ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler, who fatally shot his daughter’s Black boyfriend in 2014.

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Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was a decorated World War II veteran who also served as one of the top educators in Washington. D.C. ON July 11, 1964, Lt. Col. Penn was killed by a group of Ku Klux Klan members who followed him and two Black colleagues along a road in rural Georgia to carry […]

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, relatives and civil rights activists are holding church services and movie screenings to remember Emmett Till. They’re also trying to continue the legacy of his late mother, Mamie Till Mobley, who worked with young […]