Delta Film Academy Students Produce Documentaries on Mississippi History, Applications Close Friday
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center holds an annual Delta Film Academy in which students create a documentary centered on Mississippi history.
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center holds an annual Delta Film Academy in which students create a documentary centered on Mississippi history.
The severity of the police response to Quantavious Eason’s public urination in Senatobia, Miss., should reflect his age and understanding, Duvalier Malone writes.
“Systematic desensitization involves routine exposure to emotional stimuli, such as fear or excitement,” Hart Jefferson writes. “Over time, the responses to these stimuli will become weaker as the brain adapts.”
The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation held a film screening and educational panel on Aug. 25 to honor the child’s legacy and to encourage social change.
“Under the banner of patriotism and American exceptionalism, fundamental truths about our nation’s often ugly history are now being sanitized or even wholeheartedly ignored,” Vangela M. Wade writes.
Visit Jackson has organized a weekend of events that memorialize the life and legacy of Emmett Till on the 68th anniversary of his historic murder.
“I know, the song is ‘art,’ and art is supposed to activate the right brain, the one that doesn’t analyze and judge, but here are some left-brain questions: Which small town? And where? In what time of history? And who exactly is ‘our own?'” Richard Conville writes.
President Joe Biden honored Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley with the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Monument.
President Joe Biden will designate a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley across three sites in Mississippi and Illinois.
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