Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.
It’s hard not to have something to say, however, about Mississippi’s book of the year — perhaps the book of the year nationally, one that’s a projected winner of multi publishing industry honors for ...
But Trayvon will forever remain 17 because he was a Black teenager — seen as a threat simply for existing — and gunned down by a man who decided he didn’t belong in his own neighborhood. “Happy ...
His long-term collaboration with Emmett’s mother culminated in the powerful feature film, "TILL," which has received numerous nominations from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTAs, ...
As a senior citizen on campus, James Evans is older than most of his professors, let alone his classmates. But he considers ...
This exhibition tells the story of the murder and the powerful ripple for justice that began with his mother’s courageous ...
One of the areas you can explore is the Emmett ... Till-Mobley: Let the World See exhibit. It tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who was murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi ...
transformed in 2012 into the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and now linked to a new federal monument dedicated to Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Till’s murder is widely recognized as a ...
Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.