Emmett Tief in meinem Herzen

Emmett Tief in meinem Herzen Emmett Deep in My Heart is a film with theatrical elements telling the story of the 14yearold Black teenager Emmett Till who became the victim of a racist murder in Mississippi USA in 1955 This murder is considered the spark for the civil rights movement in the USA as well as a global publicmedia confrontation with racism Emmetts story is not an exclusively Black or American story Emmett had to die because he allegedly whistled after a White woman while his killers were acquitted by an allmale allWhite jury only to openly admit to the murder in an interview a short time later Cases like Emmetts are repeated in Germany and around the world They affect us all they are the stories of each and every one of us Almost 70 years after Emmett Tills murder we live in a world that is still shaped by structural racism