“i’ll bear my pain to save some other mother from having to go through this”

exo reminds us: the untold story of emmett louis till opens wide in american cities tomorrow. nyc: it’s playing at the magic johnson 9 lowes in harlem. you know the story: emmett till, 14-yr-old black kid from chicago, horribly beaten and shot to death by two white men for allegedly whistling at/talking to a white woman in jim crow mississippi. his killers were acquitted by an all-white jury; the murder helped jumpstart what would become the civil rights movement. this very documentary prompted the justice dept. to reopen the case last year. Part of proceeds go towards Katrina relief. let’s go.