Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist ...

The current and former chiefs of the Minneapolis Police Department are pushing back on efforts to rewrite history five years after the murder of George Floyd.

Five years after an infamous murder, George Floyd Square in Minneapolis remains a site of protest, lament, and ...

Written by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, the formally ambitious, if muddled, “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole” takes ...

Those drawn to intimate, music-driven storytelling and powerful, personal theater take note of This Is Water, written and ...

Born on August 7, 1933, in Athens, Louisiana, Emmett was the son of the late George Emmett Atkins and Myrtie (Hinze) Atkins. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 54 years, Joan (Wilson ...

As the tension intensified, she said: "That b**ch [Diamond] face look like Emmett Till." For the unversed, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was accused of offending a white ...

The Justice Department is considering reopening its investigation into the brutal 1955 killing of Emmett Till. The infamous case took a new turn recently when a witness, Carolyn Bryant Donham, ...

Eddie George is uniquely prepared to take over a college football program months after the coaching carousel typically stops turning in December. When George took the Tennessee State job — the ...