Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

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.

Emmett Till‘s brutal murder in 1955 Mississippi shocked the American public in part due to the power of photography. The 14-year-old was abducted, tortured and shot by two White men, his body weighted ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...