Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

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 ...

But it catches fire when it finally reveals its story, that of Emmett Louis Till, a young black man who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered for the crime of whistling at a white woman.

Donham was at the center of the lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black teenager whom the white woman accused of making improper advances in 1955. That unproven accusation led to Till’s ...

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 ...

He is also the director of the documentary, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Beauchamp is an award-winning filmmaker ...

Emmett Till’s death was a catalyst for the later phases of America’s civil rights movement, and now, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg, Jay-Z and Will Smith, his story is being adapted for the ...

Both men have since passed away. Keith Beauchamp, a filmmaker who directed a 2005 documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," told The New York Times that the discovery of the warrant ...

In “Till,” which will debut in October, Lawson plays civil rights activist and journalist Myrlie Evers-Williams, the wife of murdered activist Medgar Evers. Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old ...

It was a hot summer day in 2020 when Ali collapsed at a gym in Emmett Louis Till Math and Science Academy while playing basketball. Cook County medical examiner’s office records showed that the ...

Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South—the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness. Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873.

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...