John Edgar Wideman has written "A Black and White Case" for Esquire. Available here, it's an account of -- in fact, a meditation on -- the interaction between the 1945 capital court-martial of Army Private Louis Till in Italy and the murder of his son Emmett Till a decade later in Mississippi.
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