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When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.

Examine the world of the criminal investigator and other professions who are on the frontline of solving the murder of Emmett Till.

Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.

Using the Wayne Williams/Atlanta child murder case as both subject and springboard, the author assesses the state of the Union in the mid-1980s.

"When Trayvon Martin took his last walk down a Florida street on a cool February evening in 2012, he was just another American teenager, heading home with candy and a soda, talking on the phone with a friend, and dreaming of the future.

BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr.

"A group of punk rockers in Portland, Maine investigates the murders of two of their friends, while fending off a local incursion of neo-Nazis"--OCLC.

Examines the nature of gun violence, particularly in the United States, how it is covered in the news, how survivors cope with the trauma and stress after being in a gun violence situation, and steps that people in power think should be taken to end gun violence.

While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

Growing up, Jeremiah is puzzled by racially-motivated gun violence in and beyond his community but when he is ready to talk about it, he learns hopeful forms of activism and advocacy.

Black lawyer Ellice Littlejohn's perfect life--with an Ivy League degree under her belt and a high-paying job as a midtown Atlanta corporate attorney--comes crashing down when her charming white boss and "just for fun" boyfriend is found dead in his executive suite with a bullet in his head.

"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--Provided by publisher.