In the coverage of Nichols' fatal beating, 'Till' writer-producer Keith Beauchamp sees tragic callbacks to Emmett Till's death — as well as yet another opportunity to galvanize the movement for justice.
Media outlets announced constantly throughout the days prior that the Nichols video would soon be released to the public; like many, I was hesitant to join the spectacle of watching the demise of another Black life.
Nevertheless, as someone devoted to telling the stories of those who suffered grave injustice, I felt obligated and waited to see what happened.
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Lawsuit Seeks White Woman’s Arrest in Emmett Till KidnappingLast June, a team doing research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant, listed on that document as “Mrs. Roy Bryant.”
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