In 1955, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi. The white men who murdered him killed him for being Black. Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral, and show the world what had...

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The U.S. Justice Department has reopened the 63-year-old murder case of a black teen, whose violent death helped build momentum for the civil rights movement.

Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA in History from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in U.S. History with a minor in African studies from...

Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...

Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...

Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.

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U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, speaking at an event honouring Emmett Till — a Black teen whose 1955 lynching death galvanized the civil rights movement — says it's critical to teach the full history of the U.S., 'even when it is...

President Joe Biden is set to establish a monument honoring Emmett Till.

President Joe Biden Establishing Monument Honoring Emmett Till

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.

"I can see the moment when she decided to swallow her pain and move forward towards action", Deborah Watts, cousin of Emmett Till and co-founder of his foundation, holds back tears. Till is a compelling new biographical drama movie based...

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

Museums are helping fill some gaps in the teachings of America's racist history, with one Indianapolis exhibit sharing Emmett Till's story.

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A long forgotten arrest warrant could be the key to getting justice for Emmett Till’s family.

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is among some 200 bills that have been introduced over the past century that have tried to ban lynching in America.

The unserved warrant was for Carolyn Bryant on a charge of kidnapping in the Till murder.

Till's cousin, Teri Watts, said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Carolyn Bryant Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.

The Justice Department reopened the investigation after a 2017 book quoted Carolyn Bryant Donham as saying she lied about Till touching her.

HEADLINE: Police: Lynching victim's original casket found<br/>
CAPTION: Investigators at a desecrated Illinois cemetery have found lynching victim Emmett Till's original casket, rusting in a shack<br/><br/>;. (July 10)
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