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    Jun 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. The Mississippi Delta's Health Care Blues

    This crumbling Delta town, set amid cotton fields, abandoned railroad tracks and cypress-studded bayous, is a hard place.
    Tribune Washington Bureau
    This crumbling Delta town, set amid cotton fields, abandoned railroad tracks and cypress-studded bayous, is a hard place. So hard that the plaintive sound of a local musician drawing a knife blade across the strings of his guitar gave birth to the...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Bodies of Water, Health and Safety at School

    2. Jul 11, 2009 |Story| KTLA-TV

  2. Cops: Cemetery Workers Dug Up Bodies, Resold Plots

    ALSIP, Ill. -- Thousands of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots.
    Associated Press
    ALSIP, Ill. -- Thousands of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots. One...

    Tags: Death, Labor Legislation, Cook County, Family, Crimes

    3. Feb 16, 2010 |Story| WGNTV-LTV

  3. February 19 - Author Simeon Wright

    Simeon Wright was only 12 when his teenage cousin, Emmett Till, was kidnapped from Wright's Mississippi home on August 28, 1955. A witness to the events leading up to and following that dreadful night, Wright saw his cousin's violent murder become a catalyst and symbol for the civil rights movement as his own life drastically changed its course..Sharing the tragedy of Emmett Till with younger readers, Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till (Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, January 2010, ages 12 & up) by Simeon Wright with Herb Boyd is an absorbing coming-of-age memoir that adds a vital contribution to America's civil rights history. Wright-who was with Till when he whistled at Carolyn Bryant and who saw his cousin being abducted from Wright's Mississippi home-reveals the actual facts surrounding the tragedy in this first-person, dramatic narrative. At the time of the murder trial and in subsequent years, much speculation and dishonesty has been spread about the events surrounding Till's death. Setting the record straight on Till's alleged provocations toward Bryant and on the aftermath of the murder trial that followed, Wright bravely relives the painful memories, including his dad's bold courtroom testimony, the country's reaction after Till's killers were acquitted on all murder charges and his family's relocation to Chicago.
    WGN News
    Simeon Wright was only 12 when his teenage cousin, Emmett Till, was kidnapped from Wright's Mississippi home on August 28, 1955. A witness to the events leading up to and following that dreadful night, Wright saw his cousin's violent murder become a...

    Tags: Civil Rights, Crimes, Trials, Murder, Justice and Rights

    4. Feb 24, 2010 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  4. Black History Month - The Ballad of Emmett Till

    KTLA News
    FOUNTAIN'S 20th ANNIVERSARY SEASON opens with the WEST COAST PREMIERE of "THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL" in celebration of Black History Month . The Ballad of Emmett Till - Part history, part mystery and part ghost story, Ifa Bayeza's lyrical integration of...

    Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, History, Minority Groups, Fiction, African-American History Month

    5. May 10, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  5. 'The Good Negro' at the Goodman Theatre: No easy everyman heroics in civil rights era

    The Theater Loop
    THEATER REVIEW: "The Good Negro" ★★½ Through June 6 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St.; Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes; Tickets: $25-$71 at 312-443-3800 and www.goodmantheatre.org. With Corrine (Karen Aldridge) and James (Billy Eugene...
    6. Nov 28, 2009 |Story| WGN-AM

  6. Estimated 300 bodies displaced in Burr Oak Cemetery scheme

    ( WGN-AM)- Four people have been charged after authorities discovered that dozens of bodies had been dug up at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip and the grave sites illegally resold.
    Staff reporter
    ( WGN-AM)- Four people have been charged after authorities discovered that dozens of bodies had been dug up at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip and the grave sites illegally resold. Each was charged with one count of dismembering a human body, a...

    Tags: Prosecution, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups, Cook County, Chicago Tribune

    7. Jan 17, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. 10 things you might not know about racism

    With the election of an African-American president, some people thought this country had suddenly become "post-racial." Well, hardly. A new book quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as saying that America was ready for a president like Barack Obama who is black but "light-skinned" and speaks "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in an interview that he was "blacker than Obama" -- a comment that Blago later called "stupid, stupid, stupid." Here are 10 facts about racism and its close cousin, ethnic intolerance:
    With the election of an African-American president, some people thought this country had suddenly become "post-racial." Well, hardly. A new book quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as saying that America was ready for a president like Barack Obama...

    Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Robert G Torricelli, Entertainment, Minority Groups, Harry Reid

    8. Jul 30, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Alsip: A starter spot where families tend to stay

    On a recent sweltering day, the Aquatic Park in Alsip was packed with kids and adults splashing in the pool and soaking up the sun.
    On a recent sweltering day, the Aquatic Park in Alsip was packed with kids and adults splashing in the pool and soaking up the sun. The inviting oasis, which includes the outdoor pool, mushroom fountain for youngsters, playground and tanning hill, is...

    Tags: The Home Depot, Services and Shopping, Palos Heights, Tourism and Leisure, Crown Cork & Seal Company Incorporated

    9. Jul 10, 2009 |Story| WGN-AM

  9. Suspects Charged In Burr Oak Plot Receiving Protection In Jail

    (WGN-AM)- The four cemetery employees charged in the alleged scheme to dig up bodies and illegally resell their grave sites have been moved into a special section of Cook County Jail to avoid serious injury from other inmates, Sheriff Tom Dart said this...

    Tags: Prosecution, Defendants, Death, Hospitals and Clinics, Alsip

    10. Jul 10, 2009 |Story| WGN-AM

  10. Emmett Till's Casket Found In Burr Oak Storage Area

    (WGN-AM)- It wasn't until early Friday morning that Simeon Wright, the cousin of civil rights icon Emmett Till, learned that his relative's former casket had been tossed aside, neglected and rusted in a back storage room at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip.
    (WGN-AM)- It wasn't until early Friday morning that Simeon Wright, the cousin of civil rights icon Emmett Till, learned that his relative's former casket had been tossed aside, neglected and rusted in a back storage room at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip....

    Tags: Civil Rights, Death, Family, Chicago Tribune, Crime, Law and Justice

    11. Jul 14, 2009 |Story| WGN-AM

  11. Burr Oak Planned to Sell $22,000 Plots Near Till Family

    (WGN-AM)- Officials at Burr Oak Cemetery planned to sell plots to people wishing to be buried near the casket of Emmett Till and his family for up to $22,000, authorities said. During the investigation into Burr Oak, officials discovered fliers in an...

    Tags: Death, History, Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Family

    12. Aug 18, 2009 |Story| WTTV

  12. Conner Prairie Announces 2009 Spirit of the Prairie Award Recipients

    Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Indiana's only Smithsonian affiliate, has announced the 2009 Spirit of the Prairie Award recipients.
    Conner Prairie
    Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Indiana's only Smithsonian affiliate, has announced the 2009 Spirit of the Prairie Award recipients. Following past tradition of honoring distinguished individuals with Indiana ties, Hoosier Heritage honorees...

    Tags: Anne Frank, History, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Colleges and Universities

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