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The Trump administration has announced plans to revoke or shrink certain national monuments as part of an anti-DEI movement.
Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war against ‘DEI’ could spell end for national ...
The award is the highest civilian honor given by Congress. Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after a unanimous vote from the ...
Mamie Till-Mobley, made the courageous decision to reveal her son's corpse for all to see. Till-Mobley's choice allowed audiences to bear witness to an act of racial violence, and the new film ...
But far fewer people know the story of Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Chukwu says Mamie and other Black women are often overlooked or erased from history. But Mamie's decision to hold an open ...
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Twenty-four days after her son’s swollen body was found in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a cotton-gin fan and bound in barbed wire, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley made up her mind to travel deep ...
Getting the delicate balance of the story mostly right, “Till” captures how Mamie Till Mobley turned the inconsolable grief over the murder of her son, Emmett, into resolve and activism.
What stops it is all of us, not a few.” The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include three federally protected sites spanning Illinois and Mississippi central to the ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with executive director Patrick Weems on the announcement of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. Emmett Till would have turned 82 today.
Danielle Deadwyler vividly recalls what went through her mind when she learned that she had landed the lead role in “Till,” a new film centered on civil rights advocate Mamie Till-Mobley and ...
Mamie Till-Mobley, the Congressional Gold Medal. The resolution, titled the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021, was introduced by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ...