Emmett Till's glass-topped coffin at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture stands as a reminder of his mother's courage and the fight to preserve his story.

*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 ...

The Alsip cemetery is the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, rapper King Von, singer Dinah Washington and generations of other prominent figures.

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 ...

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.

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been the teen's 82nd birthday.

Officials say displaying the weapon is meant to spark reflection on Till’s lasting legacy and the Civil Rights Movement his death helped ignite. The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till ...

The movie "Till" tells the real life story of the racially-motivated abduction, torture and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. And then it tells the story of a mother who fought for justice for her ...

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 unveiled the .45-caliber ...