Column: O.J. Simpson, race and justice. It's the debate that won't go away
Los Angeles Times - 2024-04-11T21:29:11.609Z

I can't say I've spent much time thinking about O.J. Simpson over the last three decades. But hearing Thursday that he died of cancer reminded me of two conversations that I've had about him in the last six months. The first one was with a Black man who worked in Los Angeles city government in 1995 — the year the once-celebrated football star and actor was infamously acquitted in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. When the verdict was delivered, the... Read this story