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Chicago’s sewage district fails to warn gardeners free sludge contains toxic forever chemicals

CHICAGO — Bags of the earthy muck are labeled organic or natural. Sometimes it is billed as exceptional quality compost. Industry held a nationwide contest years ago and decided to call it biosolids, a euphemism that beat out black gold, geoslime and humanure.

Chicago Tribune

‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist

From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between

The Guardian - UK

67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

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Fall Movie Preview 2022: Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Dwayne Johnson, Julia Roberts in films we can’t wait to see

The season’s most promising titles have us asking: How could that have happened? Who did the crime? And do we need another ‘Pinocchio’?

Chicago Sun-Times

Top movies for fall 2022, including the much awaited ‘Wakanda Forever’

Right now there’s enough debt, toil and trouble afoot to upend the film and streaming industries twice over. Cineworld, owner of the nation’s number two multiplex chain Regal, flirts with bankruptcy amid its nearly $5 billion debt load. Warner Bros. Discovery has taken to cutting its perceived staff and programming…

Chicago Tribune

What to see at the 66th BFI London Film Festival - our pick of the newly announced programme

It’s back and we couldn’t be more excited

Evening Standard

The Trees by Percival Everett review – potent satire of US racism

This Booker-longlisted investigation of gruesome murders in Mississippi addresses a deep political issue through page-turning comic horror

The Guardian - UK

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Black leaders in Maryland launch 'Emmett Till' hate crime alert system to curb race-related incidents

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Anne Arundel Caucus of African American leaders have launched a statewide notification system that alerts leaders and journalists when a racial incident, threat or suspected hate crime occurs in Maryland.

Tribune News Service

A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.

WEKU

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing

The Independent UK

White woman who triggered lynching of black child won't be charged 77 years on

Jurors heard more than seven hours of testimony after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was found last month - 77 years after Emmett Till's killing in the Mississippi Delta in the US

Daily Mirror

Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to lynching won’t be charged

A white woman whose accusation against Emmett Till caused the black teenager to be lynched nearly 70 years ago will not be charged with kidnap or manslaughter, a grand jury found.

Evening Standard

Who is Carolyn Donham? The catalyst for the Emmett Till lynching who is still alive today

The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 propelled the civil rights movement in the US forward — the woman whose allegations prompted the killing is still alive today.

ABC News

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OLD Emmett Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham dies, family is still searching for justice

Nobody has been convicted of any crimes in connection with the 14-year-old’s lynching in 1955

The Independent UK

Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago

The Independent UK

Mississippi grand jury declines to indict white woman whose accusations led to Emmett Till lynching

Brutal 1955 incident helped galvanise civil rights movement

WEKU

A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing

A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.

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It's not just Lizzo and Beyoncé; check out these hits that had objectionable lyrics rewritten

Oops, they did it again. Another high-profile pop star sang an offensive lyric that brought backlash.

Evening Standard

Is this a revolution? As Beyoncé changes lyrics to Heated, Monica Lewinsky says Partition should be next

Fan protest on social media has been pushing artists to make changes to their work but it’s hardly a new phenomenon

Evening Standard

Till: new trailer for Emmett Till film featuring Whoopi Goldberg is released

The film follows Mamie Till-Mobley as she fights for justice for her son

The Independent UK

Powerful first trailer of Emmett Till biopic shows his mother’s fight for justice

14-year-old Emmett Till’s brutal murder by white men in 1955 Mississippi sparked the civil rights movement

Chicago Tribune

Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation funds

CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.

Chicago Sun-Times

Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmarks funds

The house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

WEKU

Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

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