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Cornel West: Remembering Emmett Till

By Cornel West

Published July 20, 2004 at 6:00 PM HST

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with commentator Cornel West about the death of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy whose murder helped spark the civil rights movement. Till would have been 63 this coming Sunday.