Moves made by Donald Trump’s administration could pave the way for the removal of a national monument honoring Emmett Till, an icon of the civil rights movement, risking a public outcry. Trump’s ...

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 ...

Till’s open-casket service at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ sent shockwaves across the nation. The Chicago church where Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral sent shockwaves across the nation is ...

Disfigured by 200,000 tons of American bombs, the mountain of rubble called Gaza represents the open casket of Emmett Till, whose funeral forced the world to behold the ugly, violent truth of ...

A historical marker created in Mississippi to memorialize and educate the public about the 1955 kidnapping and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Till was destroyed by vandals who obliterated all ...

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.

ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Nearly 50 years after Emmett Till's mutilated body was found in a Mississippi Delta river, federal investigators on Wednesday unearthed the Chicago teen's casket in hopes of ...