"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 ...

Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the killing of Emmett Till, relatives and activists are advocating another possible path toward accountability in Mississippi: A kidnapping ...

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 ...

"We're talking about misogynoir, like, it comes in all kinds of ways, whether it's direct or indirect. It impacts who we are," she said Danielle Deadwyler is speaking out after her movie Till did not ...

Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. On Wednesday (Dec. 21), Congress passed the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act ...

Set in 1955, 14-year-old Emmett is planning an exciting trip from Chicago, Illinois to Money, Mississippi to make memories with his cousins. Till worries for her son because of the looming dangers of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been the teen's 82nd birthday.

A copy of the unreleased memoir manuscript attributed to Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of whistling at her in a Mississippi store in 1955, has surfaced and ...

At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

Emmett Till’s death shocked millions of people across America and was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, but many facts about his life and his murder remained unknown for decades. More than 60 ...

CHICAGO -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been his 82nd birthday. President Biden signed a ...