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Ye Compares Himself To Emmett Till On Instagram
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty In another shocking post on social media, Ye aka Kanye West likens the backlash he’s recently received to being lynched like Emmett Till. On Sunday (Oct. 30), Ye went on Instagram to attack Ari Emanuel, the CEO of the media agency Endeavor which owns a major stake in the UFC. He posted the picture of Emmett Till, grossly disfigured after he was lynched in 1955 in his casket. The image, first published in Jet Magazine with the permission of the 14-year-old’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley, is regarded as a key symbol that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWifKayDsy/ In the caption to the post he wrote, “Ari Emmanuel Can you find a place for the Donda Academy kids to go to school that’s properly zoned for a school? I go...
Unpublished Memoir of Liar and Emmett Till Accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham Made Public
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bettmann / Getty A memoir written by the woman who was at the center of the murder of Emmett Till has surfaced. The discovery, coupled with news of an unserved warrant from that time has raised calls to reopen the case. According to NewsOne, an unnamed source provided a copy of a 100-page memoir from Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who made the false accusation against 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi in 1955. Her claim led to the boy’s abduction, savage beating, and lynching. Till’s grotesquely disfigured face was published in JET Magazine, spurring many to mobilize within the Black community and serving as a flashpoint for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The document, entitled “I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle”, was apparentl...
Warrant For Arrest Of Emmett Till Accuser Discovered, Family Seeks Arrest
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty The lynching of Emmett Till happened nearly 70 years ago and still serves as a stark reminder of racism Black Americans faced then and in current times. An investigative team recently discovered an arrest warrant for the slain boy’s accuser and the family is seeking an arrest. The Associated Press reports that the team found the arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, known at the time as Mrs. Roy Bryant, in the document that was found inside a file folder. Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill confirmed the discovery to the outlet on Wednesday (June 29). The warrant was dated August 29, 1955, and the documents held by the courthouse were sorted by the decade. “They narrowed it down between the ’50s and ’60s and got lucky...
Chicago Church That Held Emmett Till’s Funeral Placed On List Of U.S. Endangered Sites
Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty The tragically short life of Emmett Till became a tipping point for the Civil Rights Movement, and his enduring legacy serves as a reminder not much as changed in America. However, the nation will recognize the church that held his funeral will be listed as one of the Most Endangered Historic Places in the United States. According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, the Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood was the site of Till’s funeral, with the 14-year-old’s badly beaten and bloated body on display for the world to see the horrific crime and shame his murderers publicly. According to lore, it was a three-day event that was attended by thousands and received national media recognition. The National Trust for H...
