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Mamie Till-Mobley: Emmett Till’s mother honored with sculpture at her former high school

Argo Community High School on Saturday unveiled a sculpture honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, as well as a walkway named after her son. According to ABC7 Chicago, Till-Mobley’s alma mater bestowed the...

Carolyn Bryant Donham: White woman whose accusation triggered Emmett Till lynching dies 

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman who accused Emmett Till of flirting with her before the Black teen’s brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 88, CNN reported....

Emmett Till and his mother awarded Congressional Gold Medal

On Wednesday, the House passed a unanimous bill to honor Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley with a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, The Associated Press reported. Till, a Black teen, was...

Emmett Till: Grand jury decides not to indict accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham

A grand jury in Mississippi has opted not to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman Emmett Till was accused of flirting with before the Black teen was kidnapped and brutally killed in August 1955....

Emmett Till’s family want woman who accused him arrested after her 1955 warrant was found in court basement

The family of Emmett Till have renewed their calls for the arrest of the White woman who accused him after her unserved 1955 charge warrant was recently found in the basement of a Mississippi court, The...

Emmett Till’s family wants White woman he was accused of flirting with prosecuted

The family of Emmett Till and supporters are calling on authorities in Mississippi to once again reopen an investigation into the Black teen’s horrific lynching as well as prosecute the White woman...

‘Nothing was settled’ – Emmett Till’s family react as U.S. Justice Dept closes his lynching case

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday that it was closing its cold case investigation into the murder of Emmett Till. “Today is a day that we’ll never forget,” Till’s cousin...

White woman calling cops on black man in Central Park provokes comparison with Emmett Till lynching

A white woman, who was being filmed by a black man because the latter thought the woman’s dog was “tearing through the plantings” in Central Park, New York, called the police on the man,...

Willie Louis, the man who named the killers of Emmett Till and suddenly disappeared

Willie Louis was 18 years old when he noticed two white men driving a green and white Chevrolet pickup truck into a barn with two black males in the back. Soon, Louis, then known as Willie Reed, heard...

The untold lynching of Emmett Till’s father Louis Till in 1945

The untold lynching of Emmett Till and father is a story worth telling. Emmett Till’s gruesome lynching at the hands of two white men under the guise that he flirted with one’s wife while the...

65 yrs after his murder, House passes Emmett Till bill to make lynching a federal crime

The United States Congress has passed a legislation to make lynching a federal crime. The anti-lynching legislation named after Emmett Till and introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush was passed Wednesday,...

That defining moment when John Johnson had to publish the battered face of slain Emmett Till

The brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till at the hands of white men -Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam – stunned the nation, especially when it emerged he was abducted before his cruel...

Watch Emmett Till’s mother emotionally describe how her son looked after his brutal murder

The lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is one of the most heinous crimes ever committed, highlighting the cruel injustice suffered by Black Americans at the hands of racist Whites. Till was killed August...

Before Emmett Till, 17-year-old Jesse Washington was roasted to death by a white mob and captured on camera for postcards

The murder of black boys George Armwood on October 18, 1933 and Emmett Till on August 28, 1955 by white mobs comprising men, women and children stunned well-meaning people – black or white. However,...

No rest for Emmett Till as white nationalists invade new bulletproof marker to shoot propaganda video

A group of white nationalists on Saturday breached the premises of the new bulletproof memorial unveiled to honor Emmett Till. The bulletproof memorial was unveiled last month after previous...

Before Emmett Till, 23-year-old George Armwood was dragged from jail, hanged and burnt in 1933

Before the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, the harrowing story of George Armwood in 1933 had sent shivers down the spines of the people of Maryland. Armwood was dragged from a cell, stabbed...

Civil rights martyr, Emmett Till, gets new bulletproof marker after previous ones were repeatedly vandalized

A new bulletproof marker has been unveiled to honor Emmett Till after previous ones were repeatedly vandalized to erase the memory of the civil rights martyr. In 1955, the 14-year-old black teenager was...

3 white college students who posed with guns in front of Emmett Till memorial face civil rights investigation

Three white University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign memorializing Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who was...

This largest all-black town in the U.S. played a huge role in Emmett Till’s murder case in the 1950s

Mound Bayou became infamous in the 1950s for the role it played in the Emmet Till Murder case, which turned out to be one of the most heinous crimes ever committed. Civil rights legend, Dr T.R.M. Howard...

How 14-yr-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in 1955 for ‘flirting’ with a white woman

The lynching murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till (pictured) is one of the most heinous crimes ever committed, highlighting the cruel injustice suffered by Black Americans at the hands of racist Whites. Till...