Aug 31, 2015 11:30 am1 views
The New York Times (Opinion, Aug. 31) -- In an interview published earlier this month, a University of Illinois professor, Christopher Benson, co-author of the 2003 book “Death of Innocence,” about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till, made a more direct comparison with recent police shootings of unarmed black men: “Before Trayvon Martin, before Michael Brown, before Tamir Rice, there was Emmett Till. This was the first ‘Black Lives Matter’ story.”