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A year after an Instagram photo of Ole Miss frats hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till sign went viral, questions remain.
A year after an Instagram photo of Ole Miss frats hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till sign went viral, questions remain.

A year has passed since an Instagram photo went viral of Ole Miss fraternity students hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign for civil rights martyr Emmett Till, and authorities still have not questioned those involved.

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Ole Miss reaches crossroads in racial justice
Ole Miss reaches crossroads in racial justice

The tipping point to a decades-long debate at Ole Miss came 900 miles from the north with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a police officer.

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