More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.”
No Way Out for Haiti (1915), Slavers Flex Political Muscles (1850), Decades of Struggle Wins! (1935), Racial Justice Doesn’t Come Easy (1975), A Boycott on Steroids (1939), ‘We Believe in Farmers’ (1985), No ‘Justice’ for Emmett Till (1955)
Show-Business Witchhunters Hit Paydirt (1950), Jim Crow Justice, Ugly as Sin (1955), Los Angeles Deputies Sow Deadly Chaos (1970), Like a Rolling Stone (1965), What’s In a Name? (2015), This Land Is Your Land . . . (1945), Familiar Sentiments (1945)
New Orleans-based artist Jean-Marcel St. Jacques drew on centuries of Black spiritual and sustainable practices to create the artwork, which will be displayed at a Woodlawn museum honoring the teen and his mother.
One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.
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The never-before-told story of Mamie Till Mobley’s quest for justice for her son, Emmett. In theaters now.
"It was from a humanizing perspective and was not one of objectifying or exploitation," said Chinonye Chukwu in an interview regarding ‘Till’
Recent calls to prohibit the study of race and racism in public schools would have dismayed Till-Mobley, who died in 2003. It’s more reason to remember her insistence that Till’s story be used to educate, even when some consider it controversial.
Sybrina Fulton, lost her son Trayvon Martin ten years ago this month, found her painful place in American history. She feels honored when supporters compare her to Till-Mobley. “She’s an icon. She was the example of, you know, a strong Black woman,”
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