Reactions to the death of Carolyn Bryant Donham bring up the unjust death of Emmett Till, who Donham accused of improper advances in 1955. Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana at the age ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The story of Emmett Till turned the nation’s attention toward racial injustice in the south nearly 70 years ago. In a traveling exhibit titled "Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let ...

In 2020, author and journalist Wright Thompson traveled to Drew, Miss., for a private tour of a barn with a bloody and tragic history that many in the Mississippi Delta would like to forget. The barn ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of the Emmett Till lynching nearly 70 years ago, has died. Donham died Tuesday afternoon in Westlake, Louisiana, according to the Calcasieu Parish ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — “If we can say that the civil rights movement was one of the most important movements that was ever created by the citizens of this country, more successful than any other movement ...

"This is a great day as we take another leap forward in recognizing the life and legacy of Emmett Till," said Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Till's cousin and only remaining family member Glenn Garner is a ...

Emmett Till’s cousin and the great-great-great-grandson of the man who helped establish Jim Crow laws have forged a deep friendship despite a painful past. Till’s cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., and ...

When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till's relatives ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

There’s genuine excitement in the Mississippi Delta about the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, but also worries that President Joe Biden left out too many places that are central ...

Shonda Rhimes Donates $1.5M To Turn Barn Where Emmett Till Was Killed Into Memorial Ahead Of The 75th Anniversary Of His Lynching The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was tortured and killed ...

At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the recently ...