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Kamala Harris and Cory Booker gave an emotional speech in response to Republican Sen. Rand Paul single-handedly blocking a bill that would make lynching a federal crime. Is there really any reason for lynching to be legal? Was there ever a reason? No. But for some reason, on the day …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On August 21, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till arrived in Money, Mississippi to visit his uncle, Mose Wright. Three days later, Till went to a store owned by a white couple to buy bubble gum. As he left the establishment, he reportedly whistled at the 21-year-old owner, Carolyn Bryant. At the …