Emmett Till

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• Pepsi to meet with Al Sharpton, Emmett Till's family after company dropped Lil Wayne for offensive lyrics

  Inc. officials will meet Wednesday with members of Emmett Till 's family and the Rev. Al Sharpton .Sharpton continued to press for the meeting last week after the company's partnerships with Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator, of Odd Future to promote Mountain   Read more »

• Victim's cousin seek apology from Lil Wayne

  cousin of the late Emmett Till wonders if Lil Wayne understands just how damaging it was when he rapped a vulgar reference to the black teen whose death in 1955 became a significant moment in the civil rights movement, The Associated Press reports.Airickca   Read more »

• Lil Wayne song pulled by Epic Records for 'hurtful' Emmett Till lyrics

  to take down a new Future remix leaked over the weekend with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of Emmett Till .The New Orleans rapper made a sexual reference to the beating death of Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy tortured and shot in Mississippi   Read more »

Around the web

• Metro Boomin Says Emmett Till Lyric Wasn’t To Be Released

  Apparently the controversial lyric was on an early version of the song ripped from Vimeo, according to Metro Boomin. The “so called” unauthorized version of the song which has Lil Wayne’s controversial verse on Future’s “Karate Chop” remix was never supp   from Gossiboo Crew Read more »

• Oh Dear: Future Claims Lil Wayne's 'Karate Chop' Verse Helped Raise Awareness of Emmett Till...

  I never thought it was going to get so much attention, but I think overall, the whole situation, he did bring light in a positive way to what happened. Even though they probably thought it was negative, he brought positive energy to the situation because   from The Daily Swarm Read more »

• Emmett Till Controversy Helped Sell Future’s Music

  “I never thought it was going to get so much attention. But I think, overall, with the whole situation, he did bring light, in a positive way, to what happened. Even though they might thought it was negative, he brought positive energy to the situation b   from Gossiboo Crew Read more »

• Blacks had a different experience in the 1950s: letter to the editor

  In 1955, Emmett Till was beaten to death in Mississippi. A white man could kill a black with impunity. If you were black, you had trouble getting a job. So, sir, it depended on your skin color how great you thought the '50s were. Registration on or use o   from Cleveland Plain Dealer Read more »

• Hip-hop doesn’t sound so sweet to advertisers any more

  You know there’s a problem when the minister gets involved. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton this week weighed into the growing disconnect between hip-hop and big brands by sitting down with PepsiCo, which recently dropped brand ambassador Lil Wayn   from Toronto Star Read more »