Christopher Benson

Christopher Benson is an Emmy Award-winning lawyer, journalist, and associate professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He co-authored, with the late Mamie Till-Mobley (Emmett Till's mother), of Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and which won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Special Recognition and the BlackBoard Nonfiction Book of the Year. Formerly the Washington editor of Ebony, Benson has contributed to Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The New York Times.