CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been the teen's 82nd birthday.

ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Nearly 50 years after Emmett Till's mutilated body was found in a Mississippi Delta river, federal investigators on Wednesday unearthed the Chicago teen's casket in hopes of ...

Moves made by Donald Trump’s administration could pave the way for the removal of a national monument honoring Emmett Till, an icon of the civil rights movement, risking a public outcry. Trump’s ...

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is gifting its exhibit on Emmett Till to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Summer, Mississippi. Emmett Till was just 14 years old when he was ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...