Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

From Black history to Army history, coffee-time and craft connections, ongoing death and grief discussions, and a watercolor ...

EMMETT TILL, FROM CHICAGO, WAS VISITING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH WHEN HE WHISTLED AT A WHITE WOMAN AT A GROCERY STORE. THAT WOMAN’S HUSBAND AND FRIEND KILLED TILL IN 1955. HIS DEATH SPARKED THE CIVIL ...

Till's cousin will share what he remembers about the night his cousin was kidnapped, tortured and lynched in 1955 ...

Jackson is often referred to as the “Blackest city in America,” because African Americans comprise more than 80% of its ...

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center is launching the Emmett Till Youth Advisory Council. This new 12-month initiative is ...

On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...