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News T.I. says that Lil Wayne "meant no harm" with his Emmitt Till line on "Karate Chop," and that people sometimes misunderstand where rappers are coming from.
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News During a performance, Lil Wayne changed up the lyrics of "Karate Chop" to apologize to Emmett Till's family.
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News PepsiCo is cutting its ties with Lil Wayne following his offensive reference to Emmett Till.
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Society The woman whose accusations led to Emmett Till's lynching admits she lied.
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Society New evidence has prompted the government to reopen the case.
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Music Snoop Dogg uses Bill Cosby as a political exemplar in his case against Carolyn Bryant Donham, the 83-year old woman involved in Emmett Till's 1955 murder.
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Entertainment Cosby's publicist is going the distance to try and defend him.
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Crime It only took 120 years, but lynching is finally considered a federal hate crime in the U.S.
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Entertainment The actor faced immense backlash online after posting the tweets.
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Random BabyNames.com, the largest source of baby names on the internet, highlighted the names of dozens of black people who died at the hands of injustice.
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TV Jay-Z and Will Smith team up with Marissa Jo Cerar for "Women Of The Movement," a six-part miniseries focusing on the story of Emmett Till's mother.
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News Jay Z and Will Smith latch on to an upcoming HBO mini-series about Emmett Till.
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