America's OJ Simpson obsession oppressed me as a child. It still does | Sarah Perry

My mother was murdered a month and a day before Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The media’s OJ Simpson obsession made it much harder to copeOJ Simpson: an eternal symbol of racial division – or has America moved on? The year after my mother’s murder was the year of the OJ Simpson trial. My mother, Crystal Perry, was killed one month and one day before Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, almost to the hour.Nicole had a daughter, too, and a son. That long year, I kept thi