“The metaphorical lynching rope that killed Emmett Till also killed George Floyd and countless others,” Mr. Rush said. “It extends throughout the history of Black people in America, and it ...

“It’s still legislation,” she says. “It won’t bring back Emmett Till and it won’t bring back George Floyd. But a thing President Eisenhower said in his lifetime was that legislation is ...

Emmett Till helped his working mom around the house ... Philando Castile’s fatal shooting at a traffic stop in 2016, George Floyd’s murder in 2020, and countless other racial injustices ...

She also created The Emmett Till Players youth theatre troupe in 1973 ... beginning with a bill introduced in 1900 by US Rep George Henry White, then the only Black member of Congress – no ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

George Latimer, the Westchester County politician ... Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment scandal to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Mississippi. But on Wednesday, Latimer ...

Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned ...