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FILE - In this Friday Aug. 28, 2009, file photo, Simeon Wright, a cousin of lynching victim Emmett Till, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Wright, who was with Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped and killed in Mississippi in 1955, has died at age 74. Wright's cousin, Airickca Gordon-Taylor, said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that Wright died from cancer on Monday at his Chicago-area home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago, was killed in Money, Miss., in 1955. (AP Photo)

Emmett Till’s cousin calls George Zimmerman a ‘white boy’ on MSNBC

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