Podcasts

The podcast series features the voices of journalists, scholars, and community leaders who shed light on the tragedy of Till's murder alongside the larger landscapes of racial and social justice, the poetics of memorialization, the Black press, and more.

 
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“Immediately after Emmett Till’s body was found..."
Hugh Stephen Whitaker

Hugh Stephen Whitaker | August 28, 2015

A resident of Charleston, Mississippi (near Sumner) who wrote a Master’s thesis in 1963 while attending Florida State University titled A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case. His thesis served as the only one to reference the original trial transcript and included first-hand interviews with all of the jurors as well as prosecutors, defense attorneys and the sheriff involved in the trial

 
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“The Till case serves as a measuring stick to tell us how far we’ve come...”
Devery Anderson

Devery Anderson | August 28, 2015

Author of the recently published book, Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

 
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“Emmett has done so much, his name continues to metaphorically come to fruition..."
Keith Beauchamp

Keith Beauchamp | August 28, 2015

Filmmaker of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

 
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“The Emmett Till story resonates through the ages and is being replicated..."
Hank Klibanoff

Hank Klibanoff | August 28, 2015

James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University and co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

 
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“This was the first Civil Rights case in the South..."
Simeon Booker

Simeon Booker | August 28, 2015

Award-winning African-American journalist, also known as the “Man from Jet”, and author of Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement

 
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“Here was a singular moment that typified and symbolized all that came to bear..."
Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson | August 28, 2015

Journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

 
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“He became a catalyst for change precisely because he was..."
Davis Houck

Davis Houck | August 28, 2015

Professor at Florida State University and co-author of Emmett Till and The Mississippi Press

 
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"To actually see the photograph of [Till's] open casket, it was a transformational experience..."
Qiana Whitted

Qiana Whitted | August 28, 2017

Associate professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina

 
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"His death had everything to do with the identity of the nation..."
Courtney Baker
 
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"This is a story that needs to continue being told..."
Christine Zemla

Courtney R. Baker | August 28, 2017

Associate professor at Occidental College and author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death as well as several essays on black visual culture and literature

 

Christine Zemla | August 28, 2020

Professor in the Department of American Studies and creator of the "Remembering Emmett Till” course at Rutgers University–New Brunswick

 
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[Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley's story] evidences the horror of racism, hate, and the ethos...
Vangela Wade

Vangela Wade | August 28, 2020

President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Justice