Other fund recipients include a Mississippi bank founded by "most influential businessman in the United States," Mr. Booker T. Washington.

In 1955, Emmett Till was 14 years old and growing up Black at Chicago, a part of the great migration of African Americans who had left terrorist southern states in the 1930s. His single mother did all ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

We need to tell the stories. It’s what Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. has been doing for 70 years, and it’s what he did again Friday in Lincoln for a small group who gathered to hear Emmett Till’s ...

No one has ever been convicted in the murder of Emmett Till. But the last living person to see him alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee for Black History Month.

Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...

(WIBW) - The Indiana Avenue Church of Christ held their second annual Heritage Sunday to celebrate Black history and host guest presenter Amberly Carter, cousin of Emmett Till. Till’s 1955 ...

Over the years, we’ve enjoyed poignant conversations about books and movies that have challenged us to broaden our ...