Holding those magazine issues decade after decade was also a way to remind us of the signature moments of ... when I heard the news that Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant, had died, I ...

“The gruesome and unjust murder of Emmett Till serves as one of the most well ... The president’s signature ended more than a century of failed efforts to specifically outlaw lynching at ...

"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 ...

At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the ...

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 a Staff Editor on the Movies ...

The award is the highest civilian honor given by Congress. Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after a unanimous vote from the ...

The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till's mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who lynched her son in 1955.

When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s ...

Emmett Till’s cousin has sued to force a Mississippi sheriff to serve a 1955 arrest warrant on the white woman who allegedly sparked the kidnapping and brutal lynching of the 14-year-old boy.

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The first trailer for Till, Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu’s movie about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, shows his mother Mamie Till Mobley warning her ...

In 1955, a joyful 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was abducted in the night, tortured and murdered — all for purportedly whistling at a white woman. His killers, those publicly known ...