Emmett Till memorialised in monument that includes Chicago church
United StatesRNS For Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, it was the moment he had long awaited and once could not have envisioned. The older cousin of Emmett Till, Parker is the sole remaining witness to the 1955 kidnapping of the Black teenager, who was dragged from his bed to face a lynching that galvanised the civil […]
“Tell what happened”: Pastor and last surviving eyewitness urges Christians to remember Emmett Till
Wheaton, Illinois, USRNS Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, still remembers clearly the moment as a teenager he thought he was going to die. Parker was 16-years-old, visiting family in Mississippi, when he woke in the early morning hours to the sound of voices in the house. Moments later, the door to his bedroom opened and a […]
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR’S’, “DREAM” AND EMMETT TILL’S DEATH CAPTURE WARRING SOUL OF THE US
In an article first published on Religion News Service, author KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral in the US, reflects on the “warring soul” of America…