The many deaths of Emmett Till

How many futures were lost in the ongoing deaths of a lynched 14-year-old?

Washington Post staff writer Gillian Brockell released a troubling and somehow unsurprising story about the discovery of documents shedding light on the journalistic malpractice around the brutal 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

William Bradford Huie, whose 1956 Look magazine feature significantly shaped the public narrative around …