In 1955, white men kidnapped, beat and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till for allegedly offending a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Missouri. More than 60 years have passed since then, and while the once-common practice of lynching is considered a thing of the past and a historically primarily southern phenomenon, recent incidents have revealed other ways white people—often specifically white women—are still using the law to maintain white dominance in the northern states.
On May 8, a white graduate student at Yale called police because Lolade Siyonbola, a Nigerian graduate student, had fallen asleep in the dorm common room while writing a paper there.
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