August 28, 2021 marks the 66th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till. Emmett was violently silenced by white supremacists in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. To mark the occasion, we are lifting up the voices of young people today in Tallahatchie County and using the arts to help process pain and tragedy.

On Saturday, August 28th, join us for a virtual screening of the 2021 Sunflower County Film Academy's film An Army Rising Up. In June 2021, 20 young people from Tallahatchie and Sunflower Counties attended a two-week filmmaking workshop to gain hands-on experience using video equipment to document and tell their own stories. The product of the workshop was the film An Army Rising Up, which documents the young people's experiences.

Following the screening of the film will be a Q&A with some of the young filmmakers from this year's Film Academy.

We are proud of what this year's young people accomplished, and we would love for you to join us to share in their stories.

The filmmaking workshop was a collaboration between Fannie Lou Hamer's America and the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and was funded and made possible by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, the Phil Hardin Foundation, the Mississippi Humanities Council, C Spire Foundation, HOPE Enterprises and Credit Union, Music Studio of Marin, ATMOS Energy, Curtis Davis at the Domino's Pizza in Clarksdale, and Kenneth Little at the Walmart Supercenter in Clarksdale. Register online.