Dear Commons Community, Hundreds of people applauded — and some wiped away tears — as a Mississippi community unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over … Continue reading →

Emmett Till and His Mother Mamie Till-Mobley – Library of Congress Dear Commons Committee, The US Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the … Continue reading →

Dear Commons Community, A new memorial has been erected in honor of the civil rights martyr, Emmett Till.  And this time, it’s bulletproof.  Below is a photograph of the previous, bullet-ridden memorial that was replaced.  As reported by The Chicago … Continue reading →

Dear Commons Community, The federal government has reopened its investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy whose abduction and killing remains, almost 63 years later, among the most gruesome examples of racial violence in the United … Continue reading →

Dear Commons Community, In 1955, Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly making a pass at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant.  In a subsequent trial of Till’s murderers, Bryant testified that Till had made unwanted advances to her.  Sixty years later, she … Continue reading →

Dear Commons Community, If they had been the plot of a science fiction movie, or an episode of “Succession,” the events at OpenAI last weekend would have seemed a little over-the-top. A secret board coup! Fears of killer A.I.! A … Continue reading →

Dear Commons Community, After three weeks of testimony, the trial of the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd ended swiftly: barely over a day of jury deliberations, then just minutes for the verdicts to be read — guilty, … Continue reading →