Looks like the Senate is doing something right.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill that will posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was murdered by white men in August 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who wanted an open casket funeral for her son to show the brutality of his murder to the world, according to the Associated Press.
Emmett, who was 14 at the time of his murder, was tortured and killed by K.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant, after Bryant’s wife, Carolyn, claimed he whistled to her at a grocery store in Drew, Mississippi. Which at the time was considered breaking societal rules. As a result, Milam and Bryant abducted Emmett and eventually killed him.
Both men were arrested, but an all-white, all-male jury found them not guilty. Doesn’t sound all too different from what happens now.
