Thousands of federal records related to Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching have been released by the National Archives, just days before the 70th anniversary of his death. The documents reveal how federal ...

The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill that criminalizes lynching as a hate crime and makes the act punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act — named after a ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

JACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday that it is ending its latest investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was ...