Carmen Day stood with national civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Friday at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in calling for making the investigation a "priority."
The mother of an Illinois State University graduate student who vanished in August and was later found dead in a river has hired a prominent civil rights.
CHICAGO (AP) The mother of an Illinois State University graduate student who vanished in August and was later found dead in a river has hired a prominent civil rights attorney to investigate the Black man's death.