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Topic: Renisha McBride

John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till, and acquitted by an all-white jury. (AP)

A legacy predating Ferguson

Agunda Okeyo
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Katie McDonough
A mourner holds an obituary displaying a picture of shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Katie McDonough
An image of Michael Brown is seen on a tie worn by his father, at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, August 25, 2014. (Reuters/Adrees Latif)

Times' weak "no angel" defense

Katie McDonough
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The ultimate white privilege

Katie McDonough
Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

I was wrong about Gaza

Brittney Cooper
A mourner holds an obituary displaying a picture of shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Kirsten West Savali - DAME
Marissa Alexander (AP/Lincoln B. Alexander)

Katie McDonough
Relisha Tenau Rudd (AP/FBI)

A black girl's constant fear

Brittney Cooper
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Katie McDonough
Ani DiFranco performs during Gulf Aid benefit concert at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 16, 2010. (Reuters)

Ani DiFranco's faux-pology

Brittney Cooper
Richard Cohen (AP/Frank Franklin II)

Roxane Gay
A mourner holds an obituary displaying a picture of shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Carolyn Edgar
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Katie McDonough

Natasha Lennard
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Don't ask for help while black

Brittney Cooper
Demonstrators protest the killing of 19-year-old Renisha McBride outside Dearborn Heights Police Station in Dearborn Heights, Michigan November 7, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Roxane Gay
Renisha McBride (Screenshot, Fox 2 News)

Natasha Lennard
Renisha McBride, 19, shot dead (Screenshot, Fox 2)

Natasha Lennard
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