Emmett at 85" is on view at Bronzeville’s Blanc Gallery through July 25. The exhibit humanizes Till and other Black children, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly acquired documents related to the 1955 brutal lynching of Emmett Till continue to shine light on initially unreported truths ...

In 2020, author and journalist Wright Thompson traveled to Drew, Miss., for a private tour of a barn with a bloody and tragic history that many in the Mississippi Delta would like to forget. The barn ...

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was wrongfully beaten to death and lynched in Mississippi. And for years after his passing, people, the state, and institutions tried to hide the truth behind his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The gun used in the murder of Emmett Till is on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025 in Jackson, Miss.. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used ...

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 ...