Podcasts
The podcast series features the voices of journalists, scholars, and community leaders who shed light on the tragedy of Till's murder alongside the larger landscapes of racial and social justice, the poetics of memorialization, the Black press, and more.
Hugh Stephen Whitaker | August 28, 2015
A resident of Charleston, Mississippi (near Sumner) who wrote a Master’s thesis in 1963 while attending Florida State University titled A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case. His thesis served as the only one to reference the original trial transcript and included first-hand interviews with all of the jurors as well as prosecutors, defense attorneys and the sheriff involved in the trial
Devery Anderson | August 28, 2015
Author of the recently published book, Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Keith Beauchamp | August 28, 2015
Filmmaker of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Hank Klibanoff | August 28, 2015
James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University and co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Simeon Booker | August 28, 2015
Award-winning African-American journalist, also known as the “Man from Jet”, and author of Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement
Isabel Wilkerson | August 28, 2015
Journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Davis Houck | August 28, 2015
Professor at Florida State University and co-author of Emmett Till and The Mississippi Press
Qiana Whitted | August 28, 2017
Associate professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina
Courtney R. Baker | August 28, 2017
Associate professor at Occidental College and author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death as well as several essays on black visual culture and literature
Christine Zemla | August 28, 2020
Professor in the Department of American Studies and creator of the "Remembering Emmett Till” course at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
