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National monument dedicated to Emmett Till and his mother

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with Naomi Davis, founder and CEO of Blacks in Green, an environmental and social justice organization, about the new national monument and Emmett Till’s legacy as the catalyst of the civil rights movement.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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