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Jan 2022
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Best of The Take: Awaiting justice for E...

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This week, we continue revisiting and updating some of our favorite episodes on The Take.

Emmett Till was beaten, shot, and drowned in a river in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. He was 14 years old. Now that the US Department of Justice has closed its investigation into his killing, we look back at Emmett’s life and death, and his family's 66-year-long push for justice.

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