Emmett Till's glass-topped coffin at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture stands as a reminder of his mother's courage and the fight to preserve his story.

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

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

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, ...

*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 ...

There are six performances over two weekends of this play at CCT: Nov. 7, 8 and 9, and 14, 15 and 16, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 4 p.m.

Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till's ...

JACKSON, Miss. — 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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — From a tragedy that sparked a movement to an exhibit that continues to educate and inspire, Emmett Till's story lives on, reminding us that history is not behind us, but instead it ...