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COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press 5 mins ago The sculpture of Viola Liuzzo in Detroit park that bears her name is shown on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate the white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with […]
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the […]
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the […]
A White House official says President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press July 22, 2023, 8:25 PM ET • 4 min read WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who […]
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the […]
Joe Biden to establish US monument honouring lynched black teen Emmett Till South China Morning Post Source link
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press 7 mins ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. […]
This week, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a $6.8 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to build eight new public monuments. Among them is a long-awaited monument to the Black men tortured by officers under the orders of disgraced former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. After Burge was convicted of perjury in 2010, a coalition […]
The city of Pulaski has long been known as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, but visitors heading into town will now see a life-sized, bronze monument honoring a very different history. Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday, city leaders on Saturday unveiled “Resurrection of Valor,” a statue memorializing thousands of the region’s United States […]