Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of the Emmett Till lynching that took place nearly seven decades ago, has died. She was 88. Megan LeBoeuf, chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office, confirmed the woman’s death Thursday. Mississippi Today reported that Donhan had been suffering from …
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Emmett Till’s cousin files a lawsuit against Mississippi’s sheriff with hopes of having the white woman responsible for his kidnapping arrested. On Tuesday, Till’s cousin Patricia Sterling submitted a lawsuit against Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks. The suit requests Banks serve a 1955 warrant to Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman …
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A statute of the late Emmett Till has been unveiled in Mississippi. Hundreds joined Friday as the city of Greenwood displayed a nine-foot bronze statue of Till in the downtown Rail Spike Park, about 40 miles south of the town where the 14-year-old Black teen was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched …
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Prosecutors said on Tuesday that despite information about an unfulfilled arrest warrant and a recently published memoir, a grand jury in Mississippi decided not to indict the woman whose accusation led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago. According to Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne …
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State officials say that Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who falsely accused Emmett Till of murder, will not face criminal charges in Mississippi. According to Michelle Williams, the director of staff for Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office, there is “no new evidence to open the case back up.” Williams added …
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Many of us have been wondering what would come after a decades-long arrest warrant was found for the woman involved in the Emmett Till lynching. Sadly, Mississippi’s Attorney General has announced that there is no plan to prosecute Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman accused of setting off the lynching …
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The woman accused of causing the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till says she didn’t identify him to his killers or want him dead, according to her unpublished memoir. Carolyn Bryant Donham went as far as to say she was a victim just like the 14-year-old black teen, claiming her life …
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Emmett Till protestors stormed a senior living facility looking for his accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham. On Wednesday, a dozen racial-justice activists arrived at a senior living facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. The group was searching for Donham, hoping that authorities would extradite her to Mississippi to be arrested. Last month, 67 …
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Despite Emmett Till being murdered nearly 70 years ago, activists and family members still seek arrests for his death. With the unearthing of an old arrest warrant, renewed justice efforts are underway. A team of several volunteers, including two cousins of Till’s, searched the basement of Leflore County Courthouse recently …
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The family of Emmett Till is not giving up the fight to receive justice for the teen. The U.S. Department of Justice may have closed its investigation into his death, but now his family asks the feds to prosecute the white woman who accused him of whistling at her. Till, a …
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Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime. This comes more than 100 years after federal anti-lynching legislation was first proposed. The bill is named after Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago who in 1955 was abducted, tortured and killed …
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The Senate has passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022. It will now move forward to Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it. There was virtually no opposition from either chamber of Congress. Since 1900, lawmakers have failed to pass antilynching laws more than 200 times. Last Monday, …
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The House of Representatives has finally passed Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which would make lynching a federal hate crime. Since 1900, lawmakers have failed to pass anti-lynching laws more than 200 times. On Monday, in a 422 – 3 vote, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act was officiated passed in the …
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The United States Senate plans to award the late Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley posthumously with the Congressional Gold Medal with the passing of a new bill. Two white racist men named J.W. Milan and Roy Bryant murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till back in 1955 after a racist white …
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Monday, the Department of Justice announced the closing of the investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till after it failed to find proof a key figure in the case lied. Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted, brutally beaten and shot in the head while visiting family in …
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Jay-Z and Will Smith have come together again for another Emmett Till project, this time as a part of a new anthology series that chronicles the civil-rights movement “as told by the women behind it,” entitled ‘Women of the Movement’ on ABC. The story of Mamie Till-Mobley will be the …
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Jesse Lyons, assistant executive director of the Kappa Alpha Order’s national office in Lexington, Virginia, announced the Ole Miss chapter suspended three students pictured posing with guns beside a bullet-ridden memorial to lynching victim, Emmett Till. According to CBS News, Ole Miss spokesman Rod Guajardo said the image was reported …
Read More »Actor Jesse Williams has become the No.1 trending topic after he used Nike’s ad campaign to promote his new Emmett Till film. Colin Kaepernick’s now iconic ad campaign with #Nike has inspired many with his line, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” That message rang through everyone’s …
Read More »It’s been more than 60 years since the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and new developments continue to come in. According to journalist William Bradford Huie, who secured the confessions of both killers J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant in 1956, Till was killed because he boasted of having a white …
Read More »The Federal Justice Department has reopened the case of #EmmettTill.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black boy who was gruesomely killed after being accused of flirting with or whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955. Offended, the white woman lied to her then-husband claiming Till had forcibly grabbed …
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