"The #EmmettTill Memory Project (ETMP), an app, is one of them. It uses digitized archival documents, photos of those involved and of sites central to that fateful August day, and more so that users may #educate themselves about who Emmett Till was and why his death still resonates. The ETMP’s digital assets are vital to ensuring the ongoing preservation of Till’s memory as well as his legacy."
JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/portico-emmett-till/
#racism #history
#JusticeDepartment launches first federal review of 1921 #TulsaRaceMassacre;
The federal review, launched under the #EmmettTill Unsolved #CivilRights Crime Act, is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
The Truth About Emmett Till Wasn’t in Your History Book
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/22/emmett-till-political-campaign-00180137
The Truth About #EmmettTill Wasn’t in Your #HistoryBook
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/22/emmett-till-political-campaign-00180137
The true #history of the #lynching that begat the #civilrights movement began with the #Mississippi gubernatorial #election that was all about preserving #segregation.
“The Barn” 
is published today. Native Mississippian Wright Thompson exposes the deeply rooted #racism of the #Mississippi Delta, focusing on the murder of #EmmettTill. 
https://apnews.com/article/barn-delta-wright-thompson-book-review-c4ff47fc109b1ad581de612e762c0492
“All hate begins as self-hate.” - Dalai Lama
President Biden signing the H.R.55 the anti lynching bill a federal hate crime.
69 Years today.#EmmettTill
: A Black story
When I arrived at an empty house after school that day, I reached to straighten the magazines on one of the bookshelves in our family room. I was 7. In the pile was an old Jet magazine. The cover was of a boy who bad men had killed. His picture was there. He was on a box bed. I read the story and in it, I discovered that children die and horror was a part of Black life. It had happened just 2 years before that moment.
On 28 August 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched. Till was then vilified by the mainstream press. Headlines from newspapers such as the Washington Post referred to him as the “Wolf-Whistler.” Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley’s courageous decision to have an open casket funeral, and share photos of her son’s mutilated body with the world, helped inspire the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Song of the Day July 25 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Emmett Till
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
CBS News Sunday Morning/60 Minutes - The Failure of Justice for Emmett Till
Song of the Day July 25 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Emmett Till
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
CBS News Sunday Morning/60 Minutes - The Failure of Justice for Emmett Till
Today is #WorldBookDay in the #UK & #Ireland (the rest of the world celebrates it on April 23). I celebrate books everyday but in honor of today's World Book Day, I'll honor #PercivalEverett's #TheTrees, a haunting & believe it or not at times comic (in the way #Everett often is) retelling of #EmmettTill's murder. I know #Erasure is on everyone's mind (as it should be) what w/#AmericanFiction, but do read #TheTrees, if & when you can. What's your book for today?
Today is #WorldBookDay in the #UK & #Ireland (the rest of the world celebrates it on April 23). I celebrate books everyday but in honor of today's World Book Day, I'll honor #PercivalEverett's #TheTrees, a haunting & believe it or not at times comic (in the way #Everett often is) retelling of #EmmettTill's murder. I know #Erasure is on everyone's mind (as it should be) what w/#AmericanFiction, but do read #TheTrees, if & when you can. What's your book for today?
Happy Black History Month
#EmmettTill 14 year old kid killed by a white supremacist mob in the segregated south.
1941-1955
The #JackieRobinson statue was lynched, echoing #EmmettTill. Should we be grateful that this time, no one died?
In the era of #Trump, we probably should. That's how low he has caused us as a nation to devolve.
#EmmettTill
Vor knapp einem Menschenleben… 
Was wohl die Menschen in einem weiteren Menschenleben von uns halten werden? 
Falls es dann noch Menschenleben gibt, welche sich um solche Dinge kümmern wollen oder können? 
If you don't know #PercivalEverett's work, you must! He has written many brilliant books, including Dr. No, Erasure, I am Not Sidney Poitier, and the one that still haunts me -- The Trees (a brutal and brilliant retelling of #EmmettTill's lynching). Required reading.
If you don't know #PercivalEverett's work, you must! He has written many brilliant books, including Dr. No, Erasure, I am Not Sidney Poitier, and the one that still haunts me -- The Trees (a brutal and brilliant retelling of #EmmettTill's lynching). Required reading.
I watched Till this afternoon. It was such a good film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQi6GBwmSA
