On this day in 1955, a young teen named Emmett Till is brutally murdered by a mob of white supremacists in Mississippi.

Listen to selected sonnets by Marilyn Nelson reflecting on the cruelty and grief pulsing out of Emmett’s memory to this day.

Today is August 28, 2020.

This is the Librarian’s Almanac.

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