Diary of a Mad Law Professor
Slow Motion
The Justice Department recently announced its intention to reopen the Emmett Till case.
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The Justice Department recently announced its intention to reopen the Emmett Till case.
From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.
What makes this case exceptional is neither race nor the politics of self-defense alone but the total failure to investigate it for so long.
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