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

Joshua Harris-Till leads storytelling and community programs March 14-16 inspired by an exhibition about his cousin, Emmett Till, now at Minnetrista.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine if Anne Frank, the Jewish teen killed in the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, the Black boy lynched in 1950s Mississippi, could meet. That’s what playwright Janet Langhart Cohen did with her work ...

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center ...

The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955 has been acquired by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC). The ETIC bought the barn outside Drew, Mississippi, thanks ...

Judge blocks release of special counsel report Volunteers scour the desert for Nancy Guthrie despite authorities urging them to stop Body of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is to lie in state in ...