There’s genuine excitement in the Mississippi Delta about the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, but also worries that President Joe Biden left out too many places that are central ...

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 ...

Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at a white woman at a rural grocery store on an August Wednesday in 1955. The following Saturday night, that woman’s husband and brothers kidnapped, ...

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will be open to the public as a "sacred" ...

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 barn where Emmett Till was killed has been purchased by The Emmett Till Interpretive Center thanks to Shonda Rhimes’ generosity.

If you know where to look in the Mississippi Delta, you can find markers of what a culture has spent decades trying to erase. This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every ...

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till. The records in the ...

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