Photo caption: DAVE TELL, from left, Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., and Theon Hill participate in the“Remembering Emmett Till: A Conversation on Race, Nation and
The town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, canceled its annual Christmas parade scheduled for Saturday after threats against protests related to lynching of Emmett Till in 1955.
TOM LEONARD: They came for Emmett Till in the dead of night, shining a torch in the terrified 14-year-old s face as they dragged him out of bed at gunpoint and took him away to be murdered.