PHILADELPHIA — Some movies are more important than others.
Which is why, when I heard there was a new movie coming out about Emmett Till, I felt I should organize a screening for local high school students.
I’ve done this before, inviting a group of 11th graders to watch "Harriet" with me in 2019. The year before, students from St. Basil Academy, Philadelphia High School for Girls, the Camden School for the Performing Arts, and Camden’s Pride Charter School joined me for a free screening of "On the Basis of Sex," based on the life of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I did the same thing in 2013 with the film "42," which tells the story of the rise of the late great baseball player Jackie Robinson.
