Black Ivory Roots’ Podcast
From the innovators of Black Sistory: The Storytelling Genre, Black Ivory Roots Podcast unveils the dark hidden truths of His-story and amplifies the voices that White supremacy tried to silence…
Tune in and reclaim the narratives they never wanted you to hear.
Black Ivory Roots’ Podcast
One Bloodline! Two Injustices.
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Before the world knew the name Emmett Till, there was his father, Louis Till, a young Black man whose life became entangled in war, accusation, and a justice system that did not move equally for everyone. His story was buried in silence for years.
A decade later, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was abducted, tortured, and murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman. His body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, weighed down with a cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire.
During the trial of the white men accused of killing Emmett, details of Louis Till’s execution were introduced to poison public perception and shift sympathy away from the child. A father’s past was used as a weapon against his son.
Two lives! One pattern. One system that decided who would be protected and who would be buried.
This is not history told. This is history exposed…
