6. For Such a Time as This: Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD, Saints and Martyrs
I recently read The Blood of Emmett Till, an extraordinary book by North Carolina author and historian Tim Tyson. The book recounts the horrendous torture and murder of a black teenager in 1950’s Mississippi following false accusations* from a white woman store clerk. Till’s murder and the acquittal of the men responsible sparked an outcry…