It’s unsurprising but it hurts all the same news, a grand jury has declined to prosecute the white woman who set off the lynching of Emmett Till. According to the Associated Press, Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson said Tuesday that neither an unserved warrant from 1955 nor the newly unearthed memoir describing what led […]
Emmett Till's family is hurt by Mississippi Attorney Generals decision to not reopen the lynching case after old warrant was found.
America stays playing around in Black people’s faces. Decades after the ruthless white supremacist killing of Emmett Till in Mississippi, Congress finally passed an anti-lynching law in 2020 in the 14-year-old’s name. In 2021, ABC announced its Women of the World docuseries based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley, who risked her life fighting […]
Wait, what? In the wake of the horrific and heartbreaking mass shooting in Uvalde County, Texas, many of us are asking one question; What will it take for America to change in a way that will prevent these tragedies? David Boardman, dean of Temple’s Klein College of Media and Communication, has an idea about what […]
ABC shared a first look trailer and key art for their upcoming limited series "Women Of The Movement," starring Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till-Mobley, fighting for justice following the murder of her son Emmett Till (played by Cedric Joe) who was killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
