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The Trump administration has announced plans to revoke or shrink certain national monuments as part of an anti-DEI movement.
Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war against ‘DEI’ could spell end for national ...
"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the ...
Political activism and preaching the word of God were an inescapable fate for Reverend Amos Brown, but his destiny was sealed ...
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 ...
By Adeel Hassan In late summer 1955, Mamie Till chose to lay the body of her only child, Emmett, in an open coffin, believing that “the whole nation had to bear witness to this” — this Black ...
Directed by Chinonye Chukwu and featuring Danielle Deadwyler as Till-Mobley, Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Whoopi Goldberg as Till’s grandmother, the film tells the story of Till-Mobley’s ...
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 anti-DEI initiatives pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump have reportedly placed the national monument honoring Emmett ...