"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the ...

A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery May 4, 2005 in Aslip, Illinois. The FBI is considering exhuming the body of Till, whose unsolved 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, ...

Outrage over the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old Black boy in Mississippi, the subject of the new movie Till, was a catalyst of the American civil rights movement Digital News Writer, PEOPLE At just 14 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: On July 12, the federal government reopened its investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. August 28, 2015 marked 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered after ...

The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago -- and the acquittal of the two white men who killed him -- was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. But almost as fast as Emmett’s ...

Telling the tragic true story of 14-year-old Emmett Till is no easy feat but rising star Jalyn Hall brings him to viscerally painful life in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till. Hall reminds us that Emmett was an ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice and the Murder of Emmett Till” as a monthlong display of the bullet-ridden sign that was ...

The film’s writer-producer reflects on the drama’s long journey to the screen — only one part of his life’s work to bring justice for Emmett Till. By Keith Beauchamp My mission to get Till made is a ...

Two-year-old Mamie Carthan arrives in Argo, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, with her mother. Her father has arrived several months ahead of the family to work at the Argo Corn Products ...