maimy till, the mother of emity till, -- emmett till, resident of the first congressional district of illinois. i'd like for this to be entered into the record. i had the privilege of three weeks ago attending a screening of the "till" movie in the white house under the presidency of joseph r. biden. my remarks are as follows, mr. speaker. i rise today to give special recognition to mr. andy gentleman'sy, chief executive officer of amazon, for his inspiring contribution to the making of the major motion picture "till." a movie about the life and martyr dom of emmett till. mr. gentleman'sy's participation is of special importance to me. not only as an african-american, but as a representative of the first congressional district of illinois as well. emmett till lived and is now buried in the first congressional district. and were he alive today, i very well could be his constituent in the first district or he could have been mine. but sadly we live in a world where the prospects of black life continue to diminish. emmett till never got to live out his days in peace. he never got to purs

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meanwhile her mother quaked in fear to even comment on such events as the horrific murder of emmett till, which we've mentioned already today in 1955 and other depredations against black people in centerville itself one and would ask her mother about them. jackie robinson pointed to the same fear in a letter. he wrote about anne in 1964 and literally could not go home. and of course had been happy to leave for oppressive town an excellent student. she got a basketball scholarship and eventually graduated from tougaloo college there. she joined the naacp and the student nonviolent coordinating committee also known as nick and among many other actions. take took part in the sit-in in 1963 at the woolworth in jackson, mississippi, which you have seen this picture already in class. i didn't know if you'd seen that one, which is on memphis norman one of the other young men who was with them and he was you know, almost killed in that moment. it was an extremely tense and dangerous three hours in which this man almost died. she was of course horrifically treated with all kinds of disgusting ite

i also really liked till, the aftermath of the lynching of emmett till. the way in which it's treated as really different from how i feel filmmakers have traditionally treated stories about brutality against black people. it's very conscientious in what it chooses to show and what it chooses not to show. and in so doing conveys a very powerful message about the significance of image, especially when it comes to how we depict racialized violence. i just thought it was a really instructive movie. not as exploative lee traumatic as some feared it would be. >> thank you very much. empty fountains, quiet corridors. shuttered storefronts. on the bustling centers of the community's social scene, malls aren't the fixture of everyday life they once were. ideas stream public community in cleveland documents these once grand structures. >> this photo is of me. i was 18 months old. my mom had me at a chapel hill mall and she was approached by a photographer from -- who asked if her child would pose with some tiger cubs. this picture ran in the akron beacon journal in

emmett till was about my age when he visited his family in mississippi.know about the story of how he never came back but how he never left our nation's conscience. my friends told me how it cool -- how cool it was to see president biden and speak about the history of our country. i thought i missed my chance. [laughter] and it is truly amazing to be here, especially with my mom. she instilled in me the values of hardware, and as a family we volunteer at food pantries and clothing drives. i have organized events to raise awareness and advocate for additional services. i also mentor will school students and work with nonprofits in the chicago area. for me, black history is not just about the past. it is about what we all do in the small ways to build the future we all want for our communities and our country. that is why it is incredible to be with two people who are making that future possible. president biden, thank you for welcoming me and my mom and all of my friends to the white house. [applause] [cheers] it is an experience that will change all of ou

gets the reckoning it deserves, and providing a compelling foundation for me to sign into law the emmett tillto make lynching a federal crime. [applause] brian does it all. challenges us to get proximity to suffering and abandonment of the poor and condemned, so that as research for the humanity in others, we find it within ourselves first. ladies and gentlemen, please congratulate our newest recipients of the national metal of the arts. -- medal of the arts. [applause] you and your families, congratulations, thank you for cultivating the arts. please have a seat. [laughter] as a source of our prosperity, happiness, and american life, as george washington describes. thank you for strengthening the covenant that is our democracy. now please come up one by one as my military major reads your citation. i want to warn you, there are -- the medals are beautiful. so any woman that i'm giving one medal too, don't get angry with me if i mess up your hair. [laughter] you think i'm kidding. i'm not. >> judith francisca baca. [applause] for her monumental impact on public work in america, her collaborat

and providing a compelling foundation for me to be able to sign into law the emmett till to make lynching. challenges us to get proximity to the suffering and abandon and the poor and the condemned so that as we c search for the humidity and others, we find it within ourselves first. ladies and gentlemen, please congratulate our newest recipients of the national medal of the arts at the national humanities medal. [applause] to you and your families, to you and your families, congratulations. thank you for cultivating the arts as an essential source -- please have a seat. [laughing] a source of our prosperity, happiness in american life, as george washingtonme described. thank you for strengthening the covenant that that is our democracy. and now please come up one by one as my military aid, major hughes, reads your citation. and by the way, iar want to warn you, there are two types, the metals are beautiful. the ribbons are hung on. one doesn't separate pixel implement one giving the one metal two, just don't get ink with me if i mess up your hair. [laughing] h okay? you think i'm kidding

emmett till. ..and she said by maria schrader, the story of how female journalists at the new york timeso hollywood actresses, who else is it happening to? now, according to the director of a global think tank studying inequality on screen, we're looking at a downturn in women behind the camera. when we look at the top 100 grossing films every year, we saw an uptick right before the pandemic. for the first time since we've been doing this work, female directors were in the double digits, right? they broke that 10% marker. that number now has started to come down. and when we talk about directors in general, we're really talking about white women, because if we think about women of colour, they rarely, if ever, get a bat behind the camera. when it comes to behind the camera in film, not as progressive as one might hope. but there are encouraging signs that we are in a new era for women in hollywood — two women in their 60s won oscars this year for their acting in an industry notorious for its ageism. but its visible success, like this best adapted screenplay oscar for women talking, that

that was the year that president bush signed a bill called the emmett till act. the purpose which was to spur investigations of cases, the traditional civil rights that had not been adequately handled, where had been major injustices resulting in, for example, the release of the man who killed medgar evers and the release of the man who killed the four girls in birmingham. and the federal government took this on a project. and we thought this something. i was a civil rights worker in mississippi in 1964. and i thought, this is something that we really should explore. it quickly became apparent to us that that federal government was not going to move forward with any kind of robust engagement with this period. and moreover that there was a period of time where the facts were less known and the families had experienced these violent acts of terrorism 1938, 1930 and 1940s had not yet been fully explored. and that's how we got into the project. and the book is a partner with an archive that we've created at our university of 1000 cases as of violent homicides from th

just like emmett till's mother, i wanted to pretty much make that same remark.ook what they did to my brother. you just left him in the middle of the road like a piece of trash, like he didn't matter. and my dad, he couldn't handle it. when we had the service, he didn't go near him because he couldn't bear seeing his son like that. >> i wanted everybody to see what they did to my child. because somebody did this. >> hello. >> how you doing? this is trooper proctor with the south carolina highway patrol. i am calling you in reference to some information about stephen smith. >> hello. >> how you doing? this is trooper proctor with the highway patrol. i got some information that i guess is kind of like a word-of-mouth type deal. >> yes, sir. >> obviously it's in reference to the stephen smith murder investigation. >> yes, sir. >> can you give me a rundown of what you heard or what you know? >> as we started the investigation, we were pretty much starting with nothing except for a body and a car. so we started where we thought we needed to, you know, with friends, t

penalties we don't need 150 years after emmett till, we don't have an antilynching bill in this countrythis conversation but hate crimes, the most important thing we can do, the people that hate is happening too. christian, transgender, gay, lesbian, african american, latino or latino. they need to be at the center of this when the bills are written. >> emily: on the contrary. instead of digging deep, why does encroached on the first amendment. just to let me finish, thanks so much. richard, just to let me finish. it doesn't mean that it's constitutional. that doesn't mean anything i'm saying, nor does it address what senator hawley said. during the pandemic it gave the government sweeping powers and sweeping authority which is something we should prohibit against. it shouldn't have to be a simple headline that someone can tote on the national show to say this is why we are good and you are bad. talk about centering those victims, that's what's being furthered by the hypocrisy of social media and the mainstream media for example the pulse shooting in orlando in which 49 people died. rig

the tragedies of emmett till and rodney king are bloody markers on the same road.still today, too many of our officers play by the rules of the battle old days. it is beyond wrong when law abiding black parents have to tell their law abiding children to fear police who salaries are paid by their own taxes. and blacks are right to think is terribly wrong. when african-american men are many times more likely to be victims of than any other group in this country. when there are more african-american men in our corrections system, in our colleges, when almost one in three african-american men in their are either in jail, on parole, or otherwise under the supervision of the criminal justice system. nearly one in three. and that is a disproportionate percentage in comparison to the percentage blacks who use drugs in our society. now i would like every white person here and in america to take a moment, think how he or she would feel if one in three white men were in similar circumstances and there is still unacceptable economic disparity between blacks and whites. it is s

the story here in the post does illustrate what does happen and the example we've heard about is emmett till, the young black boy who was killed in the 1950s. it was his image, the image of his corpse that was so shocking, so horrifying. it did start to change public opinion then. that's a lot to ask any parent to do that. that's a lot to ask any american, anyone to do that to release those photos, maybe it would make a difference, but i'd like it think it wouldn't take that much, that americans would move before then. but to this point, we simply haven't. >> so now we have another community in crisis in mourning. lindsey, take me to nashville. what's the latest there? >> reporter: there's a lot of talk of how soon is too soon to be having these conversations, but how late is too late? remember, tennessee doesn't have red flag laws. those laws that essentially if a person is deemed to be a risk to themselves or others, law enforcement can take their weapons away. keep in mind, the shooter was not known to nashville police. they said they didn't even know this person existed. the shooter's pa

you know, emmett till's mother was right when she wanted to see the world what the deep south had doneand hours of video cam footage and i've seen what that gun can do to a little baby, to a 9 and a 10-year-old, an 11-year-old. america needs to wake up on this. we need common sense gun safety. we need at the federal level, we need an assault weapons ban. i mean, it's time. these things did not happen when we had the assault weapons ban. they just didn't. not to this pace. we sell 600,000 ar-15s in the united states every year. 68% of them, by the way, end up going to mexico. the majority through texas. we've got real problems. and we've got to address this issue. and if we don't more and more little babies are going to die. i am pleading with every republican in the legislature here in texas as i am all over this country to open your eyes and do something here. open your eyes. >> a lot of people felt that if after newtown things didn't change that they might never change. others see flashes of hope in the fact that some republicans including mitch mcconnell came around and did somethin

he stars in tell where she plays the mother of emmett till.n about oscarssowhite, but to be honest, i think this is going to be a big year for diversity because everywhere, all at once is up for a staggering 11 nominations. and i predict michelle yeoh will win . and if she wins, she will win. and if she wins, she will be the first asian actress to win an oscar. she really first won. so there's a of pressure there. and, you know i think this is her year and this other people in the cast as well such as stephanie shu who is up for best supporting actress and i want to pronounce his name . want to pronounce his name. okay, we won't . he was a child okay, we won't. he was a child actor. he starred in indiana jones and he's also up for best supporting actor . so i jones and he's also up for best supporting actor. so i think it could be a big night for asian talent, which would be refreshing . see, another thing refreshing. see, another thing i think it would be a great night for irish talent. i think they will have the luck on their side because, y