Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At about 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. arrived by train in Greenwood, Mississippi. He traveled for nearly 13 hours from Chicago aboard the Amtrak City of New Orleans. This ...