ITTA BENA - This year is the 70th anniversary of a pivotal moment in U.S. History, and a series of events later this summer ...

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ITTA BENA - This summer marks 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement ...

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Give Me A Word: The Collective Soul Story shows both sides of this discussion. Much of the film is framed around the ...

Journalist to give Lawrence talk about new book that explores unanswered questions of Emmett Till murder Other News Sep 30, 2024 - 1:18pm ...

Two days later, Emmett Till’s uncle, Moses Wright, was scheduled to leave Chicago to head back to Money, Mississippi, where he and his family needed to start the cotton-picking season.

In 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law H.R.55 — Emmett Till Antilynching Act — which finally made lynching a federal hate crime.

On Aug. 24, 1955, she and 14-year-old Till were alone in a general store in Money, Miss. Afterward, she accused Till of coming into the store and putting "his left hand" on her waist.

Angie Thomas shook up the YA publishing world with her debut novel, The Hate U Give. Now, she’s back with her first fantasy book, Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy. Thomas ...

"Till" is based on Mamie Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched and killed in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. (AP) — The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men ...