Born on the city’s South Side, was 19 when he went to the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a Black teenage lynching victim.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/17/richard-hunt-prolific-chicago-sculptor-whose-publi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Emmett Till accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham died at 88 years old, a coroner's report said.

Source: https://abc7chicago.com/carolyn-bryant-donham-dead-emmett-till/13190428/

I learned that Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was investigating the death of Emmett Till, was shot in the back by a Leflore County Klansman who, when I was in high school, still walked around in my hometown, free.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/03/12/fahrenheit-2023-even-in-mississippis-segregation-academies-we-learned-about-emmett-till/

President Biden on Saturday announced a National monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi to honor Emmett Till, the black teen that was lynched in 1955.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/07/23/biden-to-establish-a-national-monument-honoring-emmett-till/