12 - The Lynching of Emmett Till

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This is an episode about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Black boy Emmett Till, which was perpetrated after a white woman named Carolyn Bryant falsely accused Emmett of harassing her. In light of the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, and the false allegations against a Black birdwatcher by a white woman named Amy Cooper, it's necessary that we address how the system in which we live executes violence against Black people in order to maintain a regime that entitles white people.

"Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name."  ~James Baldwin 

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