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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The glass-topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till's disfigured body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement is headed to the Smithsonian ...

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.

Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till's ...

LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. >> ALL RIGHT DAVID, THANKS. WELL. TODAY MARKS 70 YEARS SINCE EMMETT TILL WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN MONEY. MISSISSIPPI. FAMILY OF TILL AND ADVOCATES GATHERED AT THE MISSISSIPPI STATE ...