Though they’ve spent every waking moment for the past couple years training and performing together, the downtime is where they truly understand and learn from each other. Away from sweating it out in the practice room for hours on end, it’s stopping and laughing at the little things — taking pictures when Yuna dropped her phone into the ocean in a fit of excited jumping, cruising on the Seine on a chilly Paris evening, and filling their pockets with scrumptious chocolate as they do on their travelogue showParis et Itzy The Ole Miss story happened to break on Thursday, what would have been Emmett Till’s 78th birthday. Seventy-eight years-old — that’s younger than my grandfather. Had he not been killed and disregarded as if he weren’t a person, as if he weren’t just a boy, he could easily be someone’s living grandparent right now. The unbearably cruel circumstances of his murder may seem distant, like another chapter in a history book, but they’re not. In my mind, Emmett Till isTrayvon MartinMike Brown ] script I knew it was going to be really exciting and bold and challenging and rule-breaking,” he says. “It feels like there's no doubt in any of our minds that the reason it's kind of exploded is because of the quality. It really does feel like the hard work everyone put in has really paid off.” a picture on Instagram of himself and two other students holding guns while standing in front of the sign honoring Till, whose torture and murder by a group of white menignited the Civil Rights movementThe signhad several bullet holes