This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett Till's brutally-beaten body was pulled from ...

Though the murder was a national scandal, Wright Thompson, a white author who grew up in the Delta, tells a full and ...

When Emmett Till’s body was returned to Chicago, to the A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home, with services held at the Roberts Temple Church of God, his mother made the brave decision to allow Jet ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A jury in Mississippi has declined to bring charges against the woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman who was found last week in Mexico, has dashed her family’s hopes of a reunion.

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in ...

Rhodes was inspired by historical events when she wrote this book. Specifically, the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 and Tamir Rice in 2014. Both were young Black boys. "Only the living can make the ...

An Axios review of a new National Archives portal found just digitized unsolved cases of lynchings, racial violence and ...