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Source: Getty Images Quiet as it’s kept, marriage is not for everybody. Folks that are familiar with reality TV personality and film producer Randall Emmett are privy to his relationship drama. Randall was once engaged to Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent. Unfortunately, the pair went their separate ways in November 2021 after allegations of infidelity …
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This March, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that should have been in the books long ago: a federal ban on lynching. It’s called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named after the African American14-year-old who in 1955 was brutally murdered by armed racists in Mississippi. There have been plenty of books and poems …
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The original “Twilight Zone” series was unlike anything anyone had ever seen on television. Airing from 1959 to 1964, the sci-fi/horror show frequently referenced in popular culture and cited as one of the best TV shows of all time was the brainchild of Rod Serling. Serling’s inspiration for the show wasn’t rooted in science fiction …
“We wanted to make it as realistic as we could. We have to see what Mamie saw. Otherwise, the story makes no sense,” she explained. “Jet [magazine] printed the photos. The world reacted to the photos. We want our audience to react to what Mamie saw. And we could not see Emmett’s body until Mamie …
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Two white men murdered a Black boy in 1955, and got away with it. What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, the men who killed Emmett Till? Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-roy-bryant-and-jw-milam
Mamie, as well as other Black leaders at that time, were not convinced that Emmett’s murderers would be convicted, but they were hoping they’d at least be punished for kidnapping Emmett. PBS reported that mere weeks prior to the grand jury meeting, Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, a segregationist and plantation owner, discovered harrowing information …
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Mamie later enrolled at Chicago Teachers College and became an educator in 1960. She taught until she retired in 1983. Sadly, Mamie died of cancer on Jan. 6, 2003, but what she did in response to her son’s murder was ever-growing. Mamie never stopped telling Emmett’s story, and now we’ll also get to hear hers. …
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