Ben Crump
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Benjamin Lloyd Crump is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His firm has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Keenan Anderson, Sonya Massey, and Tyre Nichols, as well as people affected by the Flint water crisis, the estates of Henrietta Lacks and Malcolm X, nearly 200 concertgoers from the 2021 Astroworld Festival, and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses.1
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Scott Colom becomes first Black Mississippi senator since Reconstruction
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AP projects Scott Colom has defeated Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi in over 4 decades AND the first Black person…View on X
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50 of Ben Crump's posts drew a Community Note. 4 had a note shown on X, 1 of them in the last 2 years. That ranks #12,170 of 44,614 accounts on X.
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Criminal Justice & Policing 106 · Civil Rights & Race 92 · Elections & Campaigns 27 · Education 12 · Guns & Gun Policy 8 · Healthcare 6
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Robert Reich 2 · Chris Geidner 2 · Van Jones 2 · Wesley Lowery 2 · Lincoln Project 2 · Randi Weingarten 2
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- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), retrieved Nov 7, 2026
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