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10 years after Trayvon Martin's death, the NBA continues to fight for social justice

“It was the Emmett Till of our time.”

The words Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant told Yahoo Sports are chilling, thought-provoking and pausing.

Till’s death in 1955 became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. It was a high crime in the Jim Crow South, and Till was brutally killed by two white men, who dumped his body in a nearby river.

Grant was still in college, not a full-grown NBA player when a Florida teenager was killed 10 years ago.