Heading out to learn Mississippi this summer? This is a list of state landmarks that shaped the Black civil rights movement ...

Update: President Obama has signed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes bill on Friday. See the original article below. This past Tuesday Congress signed legislation that would give the FBI ...

On this day, Aug. 28, in 1955, black teenager Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi after someone said he whistled at a white woman. The slaying of the 14-year-old helped galvanize the emerging civil ...

Emmett at 85" is on view at Bronzeville’s Blanc Gallery through July 25. The exhibit humanizes Till and other Black children, ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the first cousin of Emmett Till and last surviving witness to his abduction, will be featured at the National Civil Rights Museum to discuss his book, A Few Days Full of ...

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President Biden created a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The monument ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will fulfill a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People gathered at the Emmett & Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum, Garden & Theatre in Woodlawn ahead of what would have been the murdered teen's 82nd birthday. "The fact that his legacy ...

Mrs. Mamie Bradley mother of lynch victim Emmett Till, getting the first look at the brutally battered body of her son.David Jackson—EBONY Collection The raw videos depict the last moments of Philando ...

MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — A Muncie museum later this month will open an exhibit that highlights the legacy of a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi, ...

It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot and dumped him in a river. Today the ...