Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night ... to be with him to make sure he didn't say anything out of line. There was about less than a minute that he was in there ...

The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, ...

Thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett's brutally beaten body. September 6, 1955 Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery. In Mississippi, a grand jury indicts Milam and Bryant for ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

Emmett Till's cousin said the revelation that Till's accuser, Carolyn Bryant, is now saying part of her story was false is "a godsend" A “godsend.” That’s how Emmett Till’s family ...

Trial in the Delta began in 2022 in partnership with award-winning NBC5 Chicago anchor Marion Brooks.Collaboraction company members G. Riley Mills and Willie Round were commissioned to co-adapt ...

US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday. The BBC's Sumi ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...