Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker officially designated July 25, Emmett Till's birthday, as a day of remembrance for him ...

Many of the young, Black SNCC organizers from Mississippi who worked for Moses were about the same age as Till and were part ...

Illinois will now recognize July 25 as Emmett Till Day, honoring the Chicago teenager whose lynching helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the legislation ...

With the release of director Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” the conversation of the nation’s racist history and violence toward Black people is being revisited. The film retells the tragic story of ...

David Feldman announces Darren Till's sophomore BKFC appearance in Manchester ...

The actress portrays Mamie Till-Mobley in the new movie Till that details 14-year-old Emmett's 1955 lynching Danielle Deadwyler admits she hesitated when it came to taking on the role of Emmett ...

Last week, a woman named Nan Prince met me in the lobby of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, in Jackson, and walked me to an elevator. We rode down to the basement and she used her keypad access to ...

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Two-year-old Mamie Carthan arrives in Argo, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, with her mother. Her father has arrived several months ahead of the family to work at the Argo Corn Products ...

Lost Innocence: Had Emmett Till lived, he would have turned 79 this year. What birthed the civil rights movement? The question is still widely debated, but within this decades-long fight to ...

The Emmett and Mamie Till-Mobley Institute gathered to reflect on the change sparked by Emmett Till’s murder and the work ...