Emmett Till’s cousin and the great-great-great-grandson of the man who helped establish Jim Crow laws have forged a deep friendship despite a painful past. Till’s cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., and ...

In 2020, author and journalist Wright Thompson traveled to Drew, Miss., for a private tour of a barn with a bloody and tragic history that many in the Mississippi Delta would like to forget. The barn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly acquired documents related to the 1955 brutal lynching of Emmett Till continue to shine light on initially unreported truths ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years ...

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was wrongfully beaten to death and lynched in Mississippi. And for years after his passing, people, the state, and institutions tried to hide the truth behind his ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

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.

A SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SEPTEMBER 25TH. DAYS AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE RECORDS ON THE LYNCHING OF EMMETT TILL PUBLIC-- HIS FAMILY TALKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED CALL FOR JUSTICE IN HIS ...

Thousands of federal records related to Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching have been released by the National Archives, just days before the 70th anniversary of his death. The documents reveal how federal ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

The gun used in the murder of Emmett Till is on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025 in Jackson, Miss.. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used ...