*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 ...

This coming Thursday, Loyola University Chicago's Black alumni board will hold a special birthday celebration for Chicago ...

The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for ...

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

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.

Memorials to the teen murdered in Mississippi have been defaced before. — -- Vandals in Mississippi apparently shot up a memorial to Emmett Till, an African-American teen whose murder in 1955 ...

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 ...

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 ...