Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, but it took nearly 50 years for any memorials to be erected. Since 2005, a “memory boom” of Emmett Till memorials has taken place, with millions of dollars invested in public markers and memorials.
But what interests communication scholar Dave Tell is not the number of memorials, but how some are warping the history of what actually happened to Till on that fateful night. The professor was particularly drawn to the small town of Glendora, Mississippi. Mired in poverty, Glendora is sticking to a version of Till’s murder that many contest.
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn't stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is also affected, a trauma psychiatrist writes.
The Uber driver walkout raises questions about how workers can fight for better pay and benefits in the age of the gig economy – a topic frequently on the minds of Conversation scholars.
Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California
Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
President Trump has invoked executive privilege to stymie congressional investigators. Another president, Richard Nixon, did the same thing. It helped Nixon hold onto power – but only for a while.
A terrorism expert marks up the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, exposing the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy strategy behind this ignominious US directory.
Psychology researchers are interested in what makes a hero. Turns out many mothers tick off those same boxes by fulfilling a range of needs for their offspring.
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers who fled the South after the Civil War.
