A Chicago-based writer and lawyer, Christopher Benson has more than twenty years of professional experience, which has included work as a city hall reporter in Chicago for an area radio station, and as Washington Editor for Ebony. His articles also have appeared in Jet, Chicago and Reader's Digest magazines. Benson is the author of Special Interest (Third World Press 2000 hardcover), a Washington, DC-based mystery/thriller, which will be published by One World/Ballantine in paperback in August 2003.
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The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett ... SEE MORE