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In the United States, there have been many injustices against minorities. Most began centuries before our own existence, but many still occur. In the year 2020, we are still trying to escape archaic and outdated views more often than not. Finally, the crime of lynching is deemed a hate crime. The House of Representatives officially […]

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The U.S. Department of Justice may re-open its investigation into the 1955 gruesome murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a White woman in Mississippi.

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The family of Emmett Till arrived in Washington D.C. Monday night to find justice for Till’s death nearly 8 decades after he was murdered at the age 14 for whistling at a White woman. Deborah Watt, Till’s cousin and co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation is set to meet with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — An abstract painting of lynching victim Emmett Till on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was the subject of a weeklong protest by a black artist who decried the canvas as “an injustice to the black community” because it was painted by a white woman. Parker […]

The Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted in Emmett Till’s death in 1955, is being converted into a museum.

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The new legislation will allow civil rights cold cases that happened prior to 1970 to be reopened.

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A memorial sign that marks the place where 14-year-old Emmett Till's mutilated body was discovered in the Tallahatchie river in 1955 is again riddled with nearly 50 bullet holes.

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Whoopi Goldberg is set to produce a film about the life of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was murdered in 1955.

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Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up to produce a yet-untitled miniseries for HBO about Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death in…

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It was recently announced during the 2015 Cannes Film Festival that a biopic on the life of Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death…

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(The photos in this article are of a few young black men that are associated with me life through friends and family. Do you value…