*An abstract painting of Emmett Till currently featured in New York’s Whitney Museum of Art reimagines the searing image of the murdered teen disfigured and unidentifiable following his brutal murder ...

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 ...

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.

The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Last week marked what would have been Emmett Till’s 80 th birthday had he not been killed by a group of white men in Mississippi in 1955. The 14-year-old Black teen was murdered after being ...

This coming Thursday, Loyola University Chicago's Black alumni board will hold a special birthday celebration for Chicago ...