Emmett Till

Lil Wayne, Pepsi Partnership: Company Agrees to Meet With Civil Rights Leader’s Family After Severing Ties With Rapper
Lil Wayne, Pepsi Partnership: Company Agrees to Meet With Civil Rights Leader’s Family After Severing Ties With Rapper
NEW YORK (AP) - PepsiCo Inc. officials will meet Wednesday with members of Emmett Till's family and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton continued to press for the meeting last week after the company's partnerships with Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator, of Odd Future to promote Mountain Dew sparked controversies...
Lil Wayne’s Emmett Till Lyric Offends Family, Line to be Removed From Song
Lil Wayne’s Emmett Till Lyric Offends Family, Line to be Removed From Song
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Epic Records is going to "great efforts" to take down a new Future remix leaked over the weekend with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of Emmett Till. The New Orleans rapper made a sexual reference to the beating death of Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy tortured and shot in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a white woman...