YOUNGSTOWN The Aug. 28, 1955, kidnapping and brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, might have occurred nearly 69 years ago, but
Renowned actor and three-time NAACP Image Award winner, Glynn Turman provides a poignant audio memoir of the triumphs and tribulations of creating legacy in the art of acting. This episode is an encore of the May 13, 2023 original broadcast.
Before Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, there was Emmett Till. Till, a 14-year-old Chicago native, was brutally beaten and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the summer of 1955. His crime? Allegedly whistling at a white woman. This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the tragic…