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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 ...

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 ...

A new, interactive exhibit that chronicles the life and death of Emmett Till and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, is set to debut Thursday evening at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.

ALSIP, IL — Seventy years after Mamie Till-Mobley lifted the coffin lid on the mutilated body of her 14-year-old son, Emmett, and exposed the brutality of racism in America to the world, the community ...

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 ...

The West Woodlawn home where Emmett Till lived with his mother and extended family before being brutally murdered 70 years ago is in the process of becoming not only a museum but also a memorial.

Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When President Joe Biden signed a ...