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...generation of hip-hop fans. Will they be able to appreciate hip-hop for its intrinsic beauty as a historical snapshot? Will they ever feel a link to those whom West refers to as the “3 M’s: Brother Martin [Luther King, Jr.], Brother Medgar [Evers], Brother Malcolm [X]?” Despite his assertion that the lecture could not end on an “optimistic note,” West was still reassuring. In response to a question adressing the decline of hip-hop, he asserted that hip-hop musicians and their...
DIED. BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, 80, white supremacist who escaped justice for 31 years before being convicted in 1994 of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; in Jackson, Mississippi. Two all-white, all-male juries failed to reach a verdict when he was twice tried in 1964, despite the fact that his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. The case was reopened twelve years ago and a jury of eight blacks and four whites convicted him in 1994. He was serving a life sentence at the time of his death...
...Phineas Priests earn membership by killing or maiming homosexuals, Jews and anyone who is not white. There is no organization of Phineas Priests. In fact the order's conceit is that men act alone--not unlike the shooters in several historic episodes, including the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers--just as Furrow did last week...
...jailing of five of the killers. But she would not rest until Bowers was convicted. After repeated mistrials, the government seemed to lose its will. But by 1990, the landscape had shifted. Byron de la Beckwith was rearrested and eventually convicted for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson. "We figured if the Evers case could go forward," Ellie says, "we had a good chance of getting ours back on track...
...similar case, Byron de la Beckwith had escaped punishment for the 1963 murder of civil rights icon Medgar Evers. But he was finally convicted in 1994 after leaked documents revealed that the commission may have blocked civil rights sympathizers from sitting on his jury. Dahmer's family, which has battled for years to bring all his killers to justice, hopes that the records released last week will contain evidence that could lead to Bowers' retrial...