Following the five more women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual abuse in August alone, a new report claims that his publicity team has had a eureka moment: Just say that the allegations are a big racist attack on an old, kind black man.
Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up with Aaron Kaplan to produce an HBO miniseries about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who was lynched in Money, Mississippi in 1955 after whistling at a white woman. His death became a catalyst for the civil rights movement—and the brutality it evidenced in race relations in America is…
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a story on lynchings and neglected to identify who did all of this racial terrorizing of blacks—American white people. The odd thing is, I read the piece and missed this inconsistency, probably because I'm clear on the perpetrators, but the omitted identifiers illuminate a…
Oh dear: NBC News is reporting that Michelle Obama's father is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery, which is under investigation for exhuming bodies and reselling graves. It's unclear whether his grave was disturbed. [MSNBC]
[Alsip, Illinois; July 12. Image via Getty]
Ugh: We heard about this cemetery scam yesterday and now new details are emerging, including the fact that Emmett Till's casket was "rusting in the back of a shack," "surrounded by garbage and discarded headstones strewn about like litter." [Sun-Times]
