Coroner Identifies Body of Missing Student Jelani Day
September 23, 2021
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9:28Now PlayingCoroner Identifies Body of Missing Student Jelani Day
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as posted by the channelPolice have identified the body of missing Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day. Day was last seen on Aug. 24 and his body was found on Sept. 4 in the Illinois River.
Day’s mother, Carmen Bolden-Day, had spoken to BNC, pleading for more resources to find her son.
Emmy-winning reporter and author Mara Schiavocampo and Dr. Maia Niguel Hoskin, a professor and race scholar, join “BNC Live” to talk about Day and criticism the media has received for ignoring cases involving missing people of color.
All this and more on “BNC Live.”
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