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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.
Though the ABC limited series is gripping, it drifts too often from Mamie Till-Mobley's point of view
A noted historian digs deep into the latest work by an equally eminent scholar who spent much of his career fruitfully exposing the 1921 massacre of thousands of black Tulsa citizens. The book and the review coincided with the mass-murder’ centennial
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EJI's Reconstruction in America report (http://eji.org/reconstruction) documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed during 1865-1877. The legacy of lynching is evident in racially motivated violence that continues today. Read more.
The killings during the 12-year period adds to the 4,400 victims from the post-Reconstruction era of 1877 to 1950, bringing the total number of people lynched to 6,500
Nobody belonged to the salt marshes of coastal Georgia more than Ahmaud Arbery. His family’s roots there run more than 200 years deep. A native of those same marshes writes about who Ahmaud was and and what his community must reckon with.
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