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The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, established in 2023 by President Joe Biden, is under threat due to ...
Cuts at the hands of DOGE are threatening to eliminate the budget for NPS by roughly $1 billion, putting the Emmett Till ...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Emmett Till would have turned 82 today. Till was tortured and murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused the Black 14-year-old of whistling and grabbing at her.
Former President Joe Biden designated the three sites as part of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument as ...
In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.
A PROCLAMATION. The brutal lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 and the subsequent courage of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to ensure his death would not be in vain helped bring broad ...
“Till” captures how Mamie Till Mobley turned the inconsolable grief over the murder of her son, Emmett, into resolve and activism. Anchored by Danielle Deadwyler’s towering performance, it ...
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago whose body washed up in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in the summer of 1955. Sent down by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, by train to spend ...
Retropolis How Emmett Till’s mother defied threats to her life and fought for justice. Mamie Till-Mobley’s courageous journey to the Deep South is captured in the new film ‘Till’ ...
T wenty days after Emmett Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, Mamie Till-Mobley sat before a crowded courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi to testify in the trial of the two white men ...
Nearly 70 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered by two white men, the House has passed a resolution to posthumously award both he and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the ...
The first trailer for “Till,” based on the true story of Mamie Till Mobley looking for justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in 1955, has been released.