"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the ...

At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV ...

A marker memorializing the tragic death of 14-year-old Emmett Till has gone missing from Money, Mississippi. The sign, which was located in front of the grocery store where Till was accused of ...

A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery May 4, 2005 in Aslip, Illinois. The FBI is considering exhuming the body of Till, whose unsolved 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, ...

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 ...

The film’s writer-producer reflects on the drama’s long journey to the screen — only one part of his life’s work to bring justice for Emmett Till. By Keith Beauchamp My mission to get Till made is a ...

Telling the tragic true story of 14-year-old Emmett Till is no easy feat but rising star Jalyn Hall brings him to viscerally painful life in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till. Hall reminds us that Emmett was an ...

A white woman who accused Emmett Till of verbally and physically accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 – inflaming tensions around the murder that helped spark the civil-rights movement — has admitted ...

Before Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin, there was Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The failure to punish his ...

Mississippi museum announces display on anniversary of boy’s murder, a pivotal moment in civil rights movement The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public ...

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 eradicate ...

The dentist was a few minutes late, so I waited by the barn, listening to a northern mockingbird in the cypress trees. His tires kicked up dust when he turned off Drew Ruleville Road and headed across ...