The glass-topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till’s disfigured body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement is headed to the Smithsonian Institution, ...

A new anthology marking the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder aims to stir action against white supremacy.

Till’s open-casket service at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ sent shockwaves across the nation. The Chicago church where Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral sent shockwaves across the nation is ...

A small group including friends and family of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, gathered ...

*An abstract painting of Emmett Till currently featured in New York’s Whitney Museum of Art reimagines the searing image of the murdered teen disfigured and unidentifiable following his brutal murder ...

CHICAGO — Last week marked what would have been Emmett Till’s 80 th birthday had he not been killed by a group of white men in Mississippi in 1955. The 14-year-old Black teen was murdered after being ...

CHICAGO -- The glass-topped casket that showed lynching victim Emmett Till's battered body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement will be put on display at the ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...