Anything that happens, trust me, Emmett's name comes up.

Ali Gordon is a cousin of Emmett Till.

Till, of course, was a 14-year-old boy lynched by a group of white men in 1955 in Mississippi.

We get alerts on the phone anytime his name is used, and you get those Google alerts all the time.

You know, some of it makes sense and some of it doesn't.

Images of Till's mutilated body shocked the country and galvanized civil rights activists,

like few things before or since.

I'm just not sure that any Till moment is going to have the effect that people think it's going to have.

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, Emmett Till's name is again at the forefront of a national conversation, this time about gun control.

Now, as people inside and outside of newsrooms struggle with whether showing

brutal images of 19-slain children might move people and politicians toward collective action,

Emmett's family speaks.

I'm Gustavo Arellano.

You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.

It's Monday, June 20, 2022.

This week, in honor of Juneteenth, we're running episodes about the Black experience.

Today, is this country in the middle of another Emmett Till moment? Marissa Evans covers health care and communities of color in California.

Marissa, welcome to the Times.

Thank you.

After the Uvalde massacre, you sought out the family of Emmett Till.

Why?

You know, after I read all of the coverage so far at the time of the Valde's shooting and I was reading about all the children who died and the teachers who died and the parents reacting and the police response, I noticed on Twitter and just across social media platforms, people were talking about the need for

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