When:
Monday, October 26, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jenna Martin
Group: Medill Events - All
Category: Other, Lectures & Meetings, Global & Civic Engagement
Event presented by Northwestern Alumni Association
August 28, 2020 marks the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till's murder. George Floyd's murder has been compared to Emmett's. What has changed in the past 65 years, and what work still needs to be done?This event will be using the Zoom webinar platform and registrants will receive a link to the event upon registration.
Christopher Benson is co-author with Mamie Till-Mobley of Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, the account of the historical significance of the 1955 lynching of Till-Mobley’s son, Emmett Till, and the winner of the 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition.
As a professional journalist, Benson has worked as Washington editor for Ebony magazine, city hall reporter in Chicago for WBMX-FM, and as a contributor for The Chicago Reporter, writing a weekly online column on justice, race and media issues. He has also contributed feature articles and commentary to numerous other publications. As an attorney, he served as vice president and associate counsel for Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., the parent company of Ebony.