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Claims of ‘fake news’ are insult to journalism

By MARC H. MORIAL In 1955, Jet Magazine and the Chicago Defender published photographs of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse, igniting international interest in the American Civil Rights Movement. Defender reporter Mattie Colin, who covered the return of the teenager’s body to Chicago, captured his mother’s anguish in her poignant articles, one of which read: “Oh, […]

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