Date 22/07/2017 - News People
While millions watched Simpson's parole hearing last week, audiences were hardly as emotionally invested as they were a generation ago watching his murder trial. Simpson's 1995 acquittal in the deaths of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman bitterly polarized Americans around race. Despite award-winning documentaries and TV series, interest has seemed to wane in the former football star. Attitudes seem to have changed and black Americans are now wrestling with more familiar injustices.