The 1955 lynching of Till, a Black teen, and his mother’s subsequent activism helped propel US civil rights movement. Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanised the civil rights movement in the United States. “That’s what’s gonna happen with visitors of all backgrounds who …
Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. Allen’s photographs highlighting the effects of police brutality on Baltimore’s Black community are part of the new “Impact of Images” campaign, inspired by the power of photographs like the ones of Emmett printed nearly 70 years ago in Jet magazine. “The whole nation had to bear …
— Hundreds of people applauded — and some wiped away tears — as a Mississippi community unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over accusations he had flirted with a white woman in a country store. Speaking of Till’s mother she said: “Just to imagine the …
A day after a white gunman was suspected of traveling across New York state to massacre Black shoppers in what is being investigated as a racist hate crime, the community reeled Sunday from a mix of raw, sometimes contradictory, reactions. “I’ve actually thought that something’s going to happen in Buffalo,” said Noble, 61, a licensed optician. “We’re not going to …
