"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the ...

Parker was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, 14-year-old Emmett Till, was lynched. Till's murder would spur international outrage and propel the fight for justice and equality.

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping ...

By Adeel Hassan In late summer 1955, Mamie Till chose to lay the body of her only child, Emmett, in an open coffin, believing that “the whole nation had to bear witness to this” — this Black ...

The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by two (and allegedly more) white men, who murdered him for the sin of allegedly ...

When President Biden signed a proclamation this week establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s ...

Directed by Chinonye Chukwu and featuring Danielle Deadwyler as Till-Mobley, Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Whoopi Goldberg as Till’s grandmother, the film tells the story of Till-Mobley’s ...

Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George ...

Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, is the author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at ...

Thousands are marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide.