Monday, July 27, 2020

July 25 would've been Emmett Till's 79th birthday

July 25 was #EmmettTill's birthday. He would've been 79. The white woman who accused him has never been punished. She's still alive. The people who murdered him have never been caught. 
Here, writer, poet, and academic Eve L. Ewing wrote the poem 



Credits: [Writer + prof.] Eve L. Ewing (@eveewing) eveewing.com 
[Prof. at Yale Univ.] Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) policingequity.org

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