1. Discovery and indictment. Two white men charged with kidnaping negro / Delta Democrat-Times ; Parents and relatives keep silent in case of boy charged with ugly remarks to storekeeper's wife / ...

"Till" will make its world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival. The first trailer for the movie "Till" was released Monday on what would have been Emmett Till's 81st birthday. The biopic, from ...

The new owner of the Mississippi barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed is to be opened as a memorial ...

Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till's ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, ...

Memorials to the teen murdered in Mississippi have been defaced before. — -- Vandals in Mississippi apparently shot up a memorial to Emmett Till, an African-American teen whose murder in 1955 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has announced that the gun and its holster used in 14-year-old Emmett Till’s murder have been acquired. The Foundation for ...

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 ...