by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—There’s a phrase you hear from business schools to boardrooms that comes from John Doerr, a legendary investor who backed Google, Amazon,...
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Spend your energy figuring out what’s the one thing that you can agree on with a political foe,” Gen. Colin Powell told me years...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, left, reads newspaper accounts of the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955.
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by Davis W. Houck, Florida State University
Carolyn Bryant...
by Brandon M. Erby, University of Kentucky
After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955,...
by Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University
“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
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Who is Quawan “Bobby” Charles, and why are some comparing his death to Emmett Till?
The 15-year-old’s...
This 2010 photo provided by Mike Small shows Willie Louis at his home in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mike Small) CHICAGO (AP) — Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage field hand with an unbearable choice. He could tell a courtroom and risk paying for it with his life or keep quiet and let those screams eat away at his conscience. Grisly photos of Till's mutilated body, discovered three days later by a fisherman in the Tallahatchie River, left Willie Louis with no doubt about what he would do: testify at the trial of two white men accused in the black teen's slaying. "In the pictures, I saw his body, what it was like. Then I knew that I couldn't say no," Louis recalled in a 2004 "60 Minutes" interview about the testimony he gave half a century earlier. Louis died July 18 at age 76 at a hospital in a suburb of Chicago, the city he fled to in fear of his life after the 1955 trial, his wife, Juliet Louis, said in an interview Wednesday, a few hours before her husband's funeral service.
