There’s just something different about August 28.
about the incident. When his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, chose to have an open casket funeral, Black leaders and activists were energized, and the civil rights movement was ignited. King told the world about his dream exactly eight years after Emmett’s dismembered bodyinto Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River. It was August 28, 1955, when Mamie’s boy, Emmett, was killed.
In the midst of that pain and that loss, Black people were doing what we do better than many. We were finding joy and creating art. Two years before we heard about King’s dream,its first number-one hit, “Please Mr. Postman” by the Marvelettes. It was August 28, 1961, when Motown’s lasting impact on music and American culture began.
Motown moved the world. For Black Americans especially, it was the soundtrack to so many precious moments. Still, during all that living and loving, the oppression and racism persisted. MotownMarvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and the Temptations’ “My Girl,” but it also gave us Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” and Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
“People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for — freedom, liberty, and justice for all. And it’s not happening for all right now,”
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