"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 ...

The boy lifts his head higher and speaks with a clearer tone. “I’m Emmett.” ...

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 ...

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.

Emmett Till was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 25, 1941. Raised by his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley , Emmett was described as a charismatic and self-assured boy with a keen sense of humor.

This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...

The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. The grant is part of the ...

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

On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund created to address the ...