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.

Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at a white woman at a rural grocery store on an August Wednesday in 1955. The following Saturday night, that woman’s husband and brothers kidnapped, ...

The newest list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places has been announced. Included, is Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ, a Chicago landmark that encapsulates the Black community’s ...

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

"Those of us who grew up with this story thought we would never see the day when it would be investigated," Benson said in a breakfast interview in Washington's historic Willard Hotel. This is the ...