Troy,
In 1955, a young black man in Money, Mississippi, went to the store to buy some candy. Fifty-seven years later, another young black man in Sanford, Florida, did the same.
Both trips led to a murder — one of Emmett Till and the other Trayvon Martin.
Troy, it wasn't right when it happened in 1955, and it wasn't right in 2012. Responding to these injustices was a focus of my address to the 104th annual convention of the NAACP tonight.
I spoke of the need to keep our convention theme in our minds and hearts — "We shall not be moved." Here's how we