‘Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See,’ is a new exhibit at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock.
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.
*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 ...
JACKSON, Miss. — It was the image of Emmett Till’s disfigured body, lying in an open casket for the world to see, that helped galvanize a movement. He had been beaten, but bullets also played a role ...
Officials say displaying the weapon is meant to spark reflection on Till’s lasting legacy and the Civil Rights Movement his death helped ignite. The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till ...
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 ...
CHICAGO - Seventy years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till from Bronzeville was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched in Mississippi. What we know People gathered at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip on Thursday to ...