Happy Birthday, Emmett

R.I.P. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941-August 28, 1955)

"Two months ago, I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to Negroes in the South I said, 'That's their business, not mine.' Now, I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all!" - Mamie Till, mother of Emmett Till

Emmett was murdered at the young age of 14 years old in the state of Mississippi in 1955. His mother decided to have an open-casket funeral for him because she wanted the world to know and see what was done to her son. Today would have been his 72nd birthday.

It's 2013 and the hearts of African American mothers are still breaking everyday over the senseless and unjustified murders of their sons. Letting it go is out of the question.