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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 ...
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.
Cuts at the hands of DOGE are threatening to eliminate the budget for NPS by roughly $1 billion, putting the Emmett Till ...
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.
Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and her "critical decision" to share her grief with the world is the focus of director Chinonye Chukwu's new film. Accessibility statement Skip to main ...
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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday approving the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. The date marks the 82nd anniversary of Till’s birth.