FILE – This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses claimed he whistled at a white woman working in ...

"Dancing in the Moonlight" is the only song on this list inspired by a crime that happened to the song's writer themselves.

Members of the last generation to live under unabashed Jim Crow are among voters in a historic presidential election that has ...

In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stayed in the town during breaks in the trial of two white men accused of torturing and killing her 14-year-old son Emmett Till ... in St. Louis, Wilkinson and the ...

This summer, Louis Money, a middle-aged former employee of a “slew ... including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till. A new foundation tied to the Anti-Defamation League aims to end ...

Long story short: As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a burgeoning Midwest — Chicago, St. Louis ...

In an exclusive interview, FOX 13 Seattle sat down with Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a surviving witness to the historic ...

This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...