Emmett Till’s cousin and the great-great-great-grandson of the man who helped establish Jim Crow laws have forged a deep friendship despite a painful past. Till’s cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., and ...

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 ...

The two families' histories are worlds apart and filled with pain, but Sunday was about healing.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years ...

Tallahatchie County, Mississippi — There are 138 National Monuments across the U.S., but for the first time in nearly 100 years, they're eligible to be sold for parts. "We are seeing this effort to ...

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, ...

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.

A SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SEPTEMBER 25TH. DAYS AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE RECORDS ON THE LYNCHING OF EMMETT TILL PUBLIC-- HIS FAMILY TALKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED CALL FOR JUSTICE IN HIS ...

Shonda Rhimes Donates $1.5M To Turn Barn Where Emmett Till Was Killed Into Memorial Ahead Of The 75th Anniversary Of His Lynching The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was tortured and killed ...

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 ...