US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday.
The BBC's Sumi Somaskanda spoke to Deborah Watts, the cousin of Emmett Till, about what makes the national memorial so important.
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