Leonard Pitts: Past time for slavery, in all its permutations, to end

Last week, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Willie Nash’s sentence: 12 years for possession.Of a cellphone.Read it twice, if you want. It won't make any more sense the second time around.Nash, it should go without saying, is African American. And his victimization by Mississippi "justice" lends a certain pungent perspective to an event that occurred simultaneously.Meaning the wide-screen release of “Just Mercy,” the film adaptation of attorney Bryan Stevenson’s book b