US Attorney General Eric Holder (centre), along with author of the play Anne and Emmett, Janet Langhart Cohen (left), attends a tree-planting ceremony to honour Emmett Till, an African American boy who was tortured and murdered by white men in Mississippi in 1955, outside the US Capitol in Washington DC, yesterday. Republican Senator from Maine Susan Collins sponsored the planting, saying Till’s brutal killing “led to important civil rights reforms in our nation.”
November 18, 2014 | 02:21 AM