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Blackness includes the usual complement of interviews with experts and star voices (Samuel L. Jackson reads Johnson's quotes), but as in Burns' earlier projects, the real star here is the archival material, especially the excavated fight reels. In one, Johnson teasingly applauds an opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst...
Today, 40 years after the crime, Killen's sympathizers are a decided minority. A local television-news poll showed almost 70% support for his arrest, triggered by a series of articles in the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., which in 1998 dug up Bowers' incriminating interview. It took the Mississippi attorney general's office six years to bring charges after reopening the case in 1999, in part because some of the evidence had to be rebuilt, but many feel it was just a matter of time. "There was simply too much pressure" to follow through and avoid the impression that...
...Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York
...recount has confirmed that George W. Bush won in Ohio, though Jesse Jackson last week lent his support to a lawsuit challenging the results because of irregularities. But it isn't the only place where ballots were being scrutinized...
WARDROBE MALFUNCTION Janet Jackson's breast said hello, a nation reacted in horror, and Justin Timberlake, her partner in crime, came up with an explanation that stand-up comics couldn't have invented...