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Anti-Black Violence Today
In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley gave her son a version of a talk that Black parents in America still give their children today. She knew that simply being Black could get you killed. Before her fun-loving 14-year-old son boarded a train from Chicago to visit his uncle in Mississippi, she warned him of this fact.
Sixty-six years later, protestors still hold signs with Emmett Till's name, as targeted acts of anti-Black violence remain a daily threat. Black organizers radically expose the afterlife of slavery and Jim Crow found in systems like policing, mass incarceration, inequitable housing, education, healthcare, and environmental racism. Center Black Life and protest, Black activists are not just fighting for change: they are imagining the world anew -- a world where the joy of Black children like Till cannot be stomped out. |