She hoped that even in Mississippi, 12 White people might consider the testimony of a grieving Black mother ... Deadwyler as Till-Mobley, Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Whoopi Goldberg as ...

But far fewer people know the story of Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley ... "Without Mamie Till-Mobley, the world wouldn't know who Emmett Till was," Chukwu says. "She wanted the world to witness ...

There have been countless poems, songs, plays and documentaries about Emmett Till, whose 1955 lynching ... shift the perspective to his widowed mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and her brave pursuit ...

Still, he imagined she must be exaggerating. Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago Chicago Tribune file photo / Tribune News Service via Getty Images “Oh, mama,” sh ...

open image in gallery American civil rights activist Mamie Till (1921-2003), the mother of Emmett Till, sitting with a copy of the Clarion-Ledger newspaper on her lap, in Sumner, Mississippi ...

Emmett L. Till, the 14-year-old, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement. This monument will also honor Till's mother Mamie Till-Mobley ...

It’s about that mother’s grief ... both as the director of the 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and what came after, when the revelations from that project encouraged ...

The first trailer for “Till,” based ... (which likely was Emmett unknowingly breaking an unwritten Jim Crow-era “rule” of the town), to his murder and his mother’s pursuit for justice ...

Natasha Moustache / Getty Images Congress is posthumously awarding Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Congressional Gold Medal. The medal will be on display at the National Museum ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused ...

A newly declared national monument honoring the life and story of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, is being talked about in the context of current events. Understandable, considering ...

By Anna Betts President Biden will establish a national monument on Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955, and paying tribute to his mother, Mamie Till ...