Now the decision to pursue new charges is up to a black woman whose generation was profoundly changed by Till's gruesome death.
It is probably time to make room at the podium for a new generation of black leaders.
If present trends continue, the report reckons that 30-40% of the next generation of black men will be permanently disenfranchised.
Today we look at the art of acting, who's nurturing young African-American talent and where will the next generation of black actors come from.
The second generation had black-and-white text, simple graphics and Web connectivity.
Some are directed at "members of the post-civil rights era generation of Black academics" who matured as writers and intellectuals during the rise of hip hop culture.
However, they did inspire a new generation of black filmmakers.
But the second generation have overtaken black men and earn three-quarters as much as whites.
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With bombastic, garrulous music dedicated to their holy trinity of Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Beethoven, Black and Gass may send a generation of unsuspecting teens running to Liberace.
Cash, long known as country music's "Man in Black, " became a standard for a generation of Nashville upstarts.
So perhaps young black men who might have been boxers a generation ago are instead strutting their stuff in the NBA and NFL. Even Jones is a frustrated basketball player.
China is of course planning to employ other sources, like wind power, hydropower and nuclear, but the sooty black rock is expected to represent as much power generation as all those others combined.
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- The first generation of electronic readers had little more than black-and-white text.
In the next decade, Genzel hopes the planned next generation of 30 meter-class telescopes will enable black hole astronomers to test general relativity around the event horizon itself.
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Some 65% of Saudi electricity is generated using black gold, even as successive price shocks and the relative inefficiency of oil generation have seen it all but phased out in rich countries.
Meanwhile, Democrats are giddy, believing they have found a winning formula for the next generation by turning out young folks, gay and lesbian folks, black voters, Latino voters and lots of women.
The first generation of printers will likely suit hobbyists and small businesses, not raging masses of Black Friday zombies.
Many of these young people see Obama as Generation Next -- multiethnic, educated, global -- a politician who happens to be black.
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