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 ...
Many people are familiar with the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was tortured and killed for his interaction with a white woman during the Jim Crow era. Our awareness of his story ...
Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google (WNDU) - President Biden established a new national monument on Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was lynched in ...
John William "J.W." Milam, alongside Roy Bryant, abducted 14-year-old Till from his great-uncle's home on Aug. 28, 1955. The white men tortured and killed Till after the teenager was accused of ...