Emmett Till Statue

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Olson / Getty The majority Black city of Greenwood, Mississippi, unveiled a monument dedicated to the 14-year-old Black boy whose tragic story helped galvanize the civil rights movement. According to The Grio, the nine-foot statue of Emmett Till was unveiled Friday, not far from where he was brutally killed by two white monsters after another white monster accused him of flirting with her. The only downside is that the monument commemorating the young victim of heinous white violence, stands just miles away from a giant ode to Black people in bondage—or what white conservatives call “heritage.” From the Grio: The 9-foot (2.7-meter) tall bronze statue in Greenwood is a jaunty depiction of the living Till in slacks, a dress shirt and a tie with one ha...