TUESDAY. AUGUST 8 | VIP 4PM |PROGRAM 6PM HISTORIC TN THEATRE

EMMETT TILL: WHITE LIES, BLACK DEATH

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS, WINNING FILMMAKER, LOKI MULHOLLAND AND PULITZER-NOMINATED INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, JERRY MITCHELL

Make plans to join us for our the premier of the Emmett Till: White Lies, Black Death by Emmy-winning filmmaker, Loki Mulholland and featuring Pulitzer-nominated investigative reporter, Jerry Mitchell.

This is a ticketed event. VIP Tickets are $50 and General Admission Tickets are $10.  

Eighth of August Red-Carpet Movie

EMMETT TILL:

WHITE LIES, BLACK DEATH

BY

LOKI MULHOLLAND

Loki Mulholland is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, author, activist and son of Civil Rights Icon, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Loki’s films have received over 40 Telly Awards and his films on race and social justice issues have won 15 Best Documentary. His first book, "She Stood For Freedom" was nominated for the 2017 Amelia Bloomer Award. A member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Loki speaks across the country on issues of race and social justice and is the founder and Executive Director of the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation which was created to end racism through education.

He has been called "a loose cannon," "a pain in the ass" and a “white traitor." Whatever he’s been called, Jerry Mitchell has never given up in his quest of seeking justice.

Since 1989, the investigative reporter in Jackson, Mississippi, has unearthed documents, cajoled suspects and witnesses, and quietly pursued evidence in the nation’s notorious killings from the civil rights era. His memoir for Simon & Schuster, Race Against Time, tells the story of his pursuit of unsolved murder cases from the Civil Rights Era, leading to convictions in some of the nation’s most notorious murders.

His work helped put four Klansmen behind bars: Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers; Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966; Bobby Cherry, for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls; and Edgar Ray Killen, for helping organize the 1964 killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (popularized by the fictional movie about that case, Mississippi Burning).

Oprah magazine praised Race Against Time for capturing these stories as well as the current political moment: “Nail-bitingly exciting … Readers can expect an electric feeling on every page … as his remarkable shoe-leather effort finally brings the justice Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of.”

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