A play inspired by the story of Emmett Till has now been extended twice past its initial run at Collaboraction Theatre in Humboldt Park.

In tragic irony, his life was cut short by a brutal display of racial violence. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black boy from ...

A church in south Phoenix helped paint the picture of a boy whose life and death helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.

This immersive re-creation (some members of the audience sit in the jury box) was penned from the trial transcript by G. Riley Mills and Willie Round, and it’s only a little more than an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collaboraction has opened a new, 99-seat black-box theater in the Kimball Arts Center in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, a ...

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 ...

A $500,000 grant will help Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church make important repairs to its 125-year-old building.

Lawmakers and EMS leaders are pushing to honor Pittsburgh’s Freedom House Ambulance Service with one of the nation’s highest ...

Ernest Withers took some of the most iconic photographs of the American civil rights movement. He was in the room, on the ...

In August 1955, when Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old boy from Chicago, Ill., was abducted and lynched in Mississippi ...

San Antonio once refused to serve Blacks at city lunch counters. Today, Black chefs shape its food scene attracting national recognition.