*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 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 ...

At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the recently ...

ALSIP, IL — Seventy years after Mamie Till-Mobley lifted the coffin lid on the mutilated body of her 14-year-old son, Emmett, and exposed the brutality of racism in America to the world, the community ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit premieres Friday at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The exhibit is called "Let the World See" after Mamie's decision ...

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 ...

The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955 will be preserved and rebuilt as a “sacred” site honoring the 14-year-old's tragic death.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago home of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanized the civil rights movement when his mother insisted his mutilated body be displayed in an open casket, ...

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 barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will be open to the public as a "sacred" ...

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 ...