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ITTA BENA - This year is the 70th anniversary of a pivotal moment in U.S. History, and a series of events later this summer ...
Embeth Davidtz was a hard-working actress, and then she found her voice as a writer/director. Thanks to a cancelled series, ...
Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy bring 'You Deserve Each Other' to life in the film adaptation of Sarah Hogle's bestselling ...
Give Me A Word: The Collective Soul Story shows both sides of this discussion. Much of the film is framed around the ...
Journalist Wright Thompson grew up 23 miles from the site where Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, yet Thompson never learned much of the crime until he left to attend college out of ...
History Dept. The Truth About Emmett Till Wasn’t in Your History Book The true history of the lynching that begat the civil rights movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that ...
In 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law H.R.55 — Emmett Till Antilynching Act — which finally made lynching a federal hate crime.
The white woman at the center of Emmett Till's tragic killing in Mississippi in 1955 has died at 88.
- Angie Thomas Thomas learned about the lynching of Emmett Till — a Black teenager who was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955 — when she was just about six years old.
Hundreds of people gathered in Pensacola this weekend to watch a private screening of the movie "Till," followed by panel discussion with cousin.
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 ...
How did Emmett Till’s murder catalyze the civil rights movement? When Mamie Till learned her son was kidnapped, she gathered her family and called up newspapers the same day.