CNN’s Cornish Stirs Racial Angle in Death of Nolan Wells
23rd September 2026
Despite an exhaustive grand-jury investigation that turned up no evidence of a crime in the death of Nolan Wells, a black 18-year-old Mississippian, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish didn’t stop stirring the racial pot.
The Wells family retained race-hustling lawyer Benjamin Crump for the case. On Tuesday’s episode, Cornish cited social media on other deaths of young black people and used them to insist there’s racism in so many unsolved mysteries involving young black people: