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How Emmett Till’s mother fought for justice after her son’s killing

A national momument spanning three sites central to the story of Till’s death will join efforts to reckon with America’s history of racist violence, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Our highlights for Monday, July 24

The Sixth Commandment is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

WhatToWatch

Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother

The monument to the murdered Black teen follows the President’s signing last year of the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act

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The best films of 2023 so far

Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date

The Guardian - UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted by woman for racist ‘Emmett Till’ attack on Jamaal Bowman

Marjorie Taylor Greene denies her feeling threatened by Jamaal Bowman was about race

The Independent UK

Who was Emmett Till? Woman whose accusation led to murder dies

Carolyn Bryant accused Emmett Till, 14, of making advances to her in Mississippi in 1955

Evening Standard

Andrea Riseborough is a blameless victim, but the Oscars do have a race problem

Poor Andrea Riseborough. Last week, a glitzy, last-minute “grassroots” campaign saw her catapulted into the Oscars Best Actress race for her performance in the indie movie, To Leslie. It did indeed raise the Brit’s profile – but for all the wrong reasons.

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There’s still plenty to say about the Emmett Till story

What prompts me to write is a new book about the Emmett Till story, A Few Days Full of Trouble, by Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson.

Chicago Sun-Times

The best films of 2023 to look forward to

New movies from Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Florian Zeller, among others, mean there’s a feast of cinema to look forward to in the coming months

The Guardian - UK

New film blasts Emmett Till’s accuser, who’s 88, living in hospice and ‘always felt like a victim’

Carolyn Bryant Donham was never held legally responsible for her alleged role in the horrific kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, and, at 88, has reportedly lived out her final years in relative tranquility in Kentucky.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Wellington: Chinonye Chukwu's 'Till' is a complex portrait of a mother's love

PHILADELPHIA — Early in Chinonye Chukwu's heart-wrenching film, "Till," Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler) and her son Emmett (Jalyn Hall) sing bebop tunes as they drive to a department store to buy Emmett a wallet for that fateful Mississippi trip.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jenice Armstrong: The new Emmett Till movie is hard to watch. See it anyway, and take teens with you

PHILADELPHIA — Some movies are more important than others.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mamie Till depiction seen as tribute to Black female leaders

A new biopic about the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement, is being promoted as a tribute to Black women and Black mothers who are continuing her legacy and fight for justice, equality and equity

The Independent UK

Till review – sensitive Emmett Till drama aims to educate and honor

A remarkable performance from Danielle Deadwyler anchors an at times morally questionable pursuit: to retell a devastating story of Black pain

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Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmarks funds

The house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

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Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

The Conversation

A white librettist wrote an opera about Emmett Till – and some critics are calling for its cancellation

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony.

Al Jazeera

‘Historic injustice’: Biden makes lynching a US hate crime

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

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Biden to sign bill making lynching a federal hate crime

President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed

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