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Eurweb.com
January 20, 2018
*The huge success that “Empire” actress Taraji P. Henson has had over the years is now taking her behind the camera. In a surprise announcement, Henson has revealed that she will be producing and starring in a film based on the murder of Emmett Till. The project will be helmed by John Singleton.
WINA AM 1070
January 12, 2018
... mother and award-winning journalist Christopher Benson. Whoopi Goldberg is also planning to produce “Till,” which will be based on producer Keith A. Beauchamp's 2004 documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and Simeon Wright's Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.”.
HuffPost
December 17, 2017
An equal number swore he was a Democrat. Through my short time working with him and many years of friendship thereafter, I came to know the truth. He was just a damned good journalist. A reporter's reporter. One with a pipeline to exclusive information. Sources to die for. The kind who would call himÃâà...
Poynter (blog)
October 17, 2017
That's a problem, said Christopher Benson, an associate professor of African-American Studies and Journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ... “We are trying to investigate all the reasons why this data fall through the gap,” said Rachel Glickhouse, a journalist and the partner manager forÃâà...
What'sUpNewp
October 4, 2017
Christopher Benson studied at RISD, where he earned his BFA in painting. He has had solo exhibitions at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco, CA), LewAllen Contemporary and Gerald Peters Gallery (both in Santa Fe, NM), the Virginia Lynch Gallery (Tiverton, RI) and Jessica Hagen Fine ArtÃâà...
Chicago Reporter
September 19, 2017
British author Jim Walvin explores the link between sugar, the slave trade and modern-day health in his upcoming “Sugar: The World Corrupted, From Slavery to Obesity”: “There is a link between the history of African slavery and modern-day racism,” Walvin said. “For three centuries and more, the WestÃâà...
Poteau Daily News
July 25, 2017
Brandon Christopher Benson is being held at the LeFlore County Detention Center on possible charges of two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon with intent to great bodily harm after two people were taken to hospitals with gun shot wounds on Monday night. According to LeFlore CountyÃâà...
HuffPost
June 8, 2017
On the same day last week we were reminded of the racist expression that, sadly, has been such a significant part of the American narrative. On exhibit. Opposite ends of the country. In a cultural institution and at the home of a cultural icon. The noose found at the Smithsonian's National Museum of AfricanÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2017
With all the controversy surrounding the painting of Emmett Till's mutilated remains at the Whitney Biennial, one important voice is missing from the dialogue. What would Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett's mother, have to say about a white artist's rendering of the iconic Jet magazine coffin photograph of her son,Ãâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 29, 2016
Questioning the answers. If we don't ask "why?" then the public has every right to ask "why not?" and the spotlight turns on us. Christopher D. Benson is a journalist and lawyer. He also is an associate professor of journalism and African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Variety
May 15, 2015
The book was co-written by Till's mother, the late Mamie Till-Mobley, and journalist Christopher Benson. Till was 14 and visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was lynched after reportedly whistling at a white woman in 1955. Till's murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. “The full Emmett TillÃâà...
First Things (blog)
December 21, 2010
Spacks anticipates our questions because she has spent countless afternoon teas in the company of an author whose ear was tuned to subtleties of dialogue and whose heart was sensitive to both the machinations of romance and the meanness of wealth. Review : Sarah Emsley, Open Letters MonthlyÃâà...
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