We won’t stop future Fergusons and floodwaters by planting a tree

Grist
By Brentin MockNov 21, 2014, 6:26 pm55 pts
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder joined civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in planting a sycamore tree at the U.S. Capitol in honor of Emmett Till, the African-American teenager tortured and murdered by white men in Cochran’s state in 1955. Till’s killing is…

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