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 ...

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.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been the teen's 82nd birthday.

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 unveiled the .45-caliber ...