Biden honors Emmett Till with new national monument

What they're saying: “At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we're making it clear — crystal clear. Though darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase race nothing," Biden said at a White House press conference.

• "We can't just choose to learn what we want to know. We have to learn what we should know," he added.
• Biden said the national monument will help visitors of all backgrounds learn the history of Till and his mother, adding that "it's up to all of us" to stop hate.
• Marvel Parker, co-founder of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Institute, told the Washington Post: "Emmett and Mamie are finally being recognized for his tragic death and her heroism to allow the world to see his mutilated body in the casket in 1955, which is said to have become the catalyst for the civil rights movement."

Driving the news: The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be established at three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, per a White House statement.

• One will be at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville, a historically Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where thousands of people gathered to mourn Emmett Till’s death in 1955.

• "In Mississippi, the monument will include Graball Landing, which is believed to be the site where Emmett Till's brutalized body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River," a White House official said in an emailed statement on Sunday.
• "The third site is the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett Till’s murderers were tried by an all-white jury and wrongly acquitted."

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• MLK Library exhibit explores Emmitt Till's life and murder

Editor's note: This article has been updated with additional developments.