Horizon Therapeutics invests in Emmett Till's home renovation

DEERFIELD - Horizon Therapeutics Thursday said it has made a $100,000 seed donation to promote community engagement around the renovation of Emmett Till's childhood home in Chicago's West Woodlawn neighborhood.

The future Till-Mobley Great Migration House Museum, Theatre & Garden will focus on educating visitors about the movement of seven million Blacks from the Jim Crow south to northern cities, which they transformed through hard work and enriched with heritage traditions.

"Living the values of diversity, equity and inclusion begins with dialogue and understanding," said Irina Konstantinovsky, chief human resources office and chief diversity officer, Horizon. "Horizon became involved with the restoration of the Emmett Till House through a group of our Black employees who were looking for ways the company could support the Black community and create an authentic space where historically marginalized voices could be amplified."

Till, a 14-year old Black child from Chicago, was murdered on a summer visit to Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.

Horizon is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of medicines that address critical needs for people impacted by rare, autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases.