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After an unserved warrant charging a white woman with Emmett Till’s kidnapping was found recently in a courthouse basement, family members of the murdered Chicago teenager have been calling for ...
The boy lifts his head higher and speaks with a clearer tone. “I’m Emmett.” ...
The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by two (and allegedly more) white men, who murdered him for the sin of allegedly ...
Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George ...
The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. The grant is part of the ...
This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...
On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund created to address the ...