Our Friday Reporter Roundtable focused on The Quad Cities and the Metro East, including layoffs at US Steel’s Granite City Works.

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton talks about the new national monument of Emmett Till and his mother, the SAFE-T-ACT, and the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling.

Most lynchings took place in 12 southern states, but racial terrorism was unleashed against African-Americans in many parts of Illinois.

In 1955, after Chicago teenager Emmett Till was lynched and beaten to death on a trip in Mississippi, his mother Mamie made the decision to have the media cover Emmett’s open casket funeral. Many consider that decision a major factor in helping to ignite the civil rights movement.