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Mark Keith Smith, a 26-year-old from Burien, has pleaded not guilty to murder in connection with a fatal road-rage shooting. Smith's bail remains at $1 million.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located on three protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi.
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (July 25) honoured Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanise the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument spanning two states and a call for Americans to learn the country's full history. Till, 14 and visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi,...
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Three sites connected to the 14-year-old boy's murder in 1955 will now receive federal protection
President Joe Biden establishes the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, honoring their legacies.