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The boy lifts his head higher and speaks with a clearer tone. “I’m Emmett.” ...
The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by two (and allegedly more) white men, who murdered him for the sin of allegedly ...
This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...
The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. The grant is part of the ...
Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that ...
On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund created to address the ...