‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived

Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America Seventy-one years after the brutal murder of Emmett Till, the way that the US as a country honors his memory is still being contested.

Markers commemorating his life have been shot at , stolen and become the site of white supremacist group recruiting events. A new exhibit opening in Chicago asks the country to memorialize his life not only by remembering his death, but by asking America to consider the question: What if Emmett Till Lived? Open now and running until December, the exhibition If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago is an imagined photo library depicting the life Till never got to live. Through the images…