Emmett Till

President Joe Biden is hosting a screening Thursday of the movie “Till,” about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

The torture and killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body.

A powerful exhibit opening Friday at D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library tells the story of Emmett Till’s murder and his mother’s activism, which helped launch the civil rights movement.

A powerful exhibit at D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library tells the story of Emmett Till’s murder and his mother’s activism that helped launch the civil rights movement. News4’s Walter Morris got a preview before the exhibit opens to the public Friday.

White men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over accusations he had flirted with a white woman in a country store.

The decision means it is increasingly unlikely that Carolyn Bryant Donham will ever be prosecuted for her role in the events that led to the 14-year-old’s murder nearly 70 years ago.

The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed.

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping. And relatives of the victim say they now want the woman brought to justice nearly 70 years later. Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill tells The Associated Press the warrant was...

Relatives of Emmett Till have been stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into his lynching in Mississippi in 1955.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act last night, making lynching a federal hate crime.

Congress has given final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law.

The NBC Chicago original documentary examines the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi and the impact of his murder on the Civil Rights Movement

The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, and the acquittal of the two white men who killed him, was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. But almost as fast as Emmett’s name became known around the world, it began to fade. How did it happen? How could people forget the torture of a 14-year-old boy?...

The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

The U.S. Justice Department is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager Emmett Till