On the May 12 episode of the Zeus Network reality TV series Baddies Africa, Summer None Other compared fellow contestant Diamond The Body with Emmett Till during a heated exchange.

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

Deborah Watts, Till’s cousin and co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation ... as much as he legally could at the time ...

Wright’s latest book, "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi," examines the lasting impact of the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, as well as the extraordinary ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night Till was kidnapped and murdered. M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting M ...

President Joe Biden hugs Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., as Vice President Kamala Harris applauds, at an event to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, in the Indian Treaty Room ...

Emmett Till’s death was a catalyst for the later phases of America’s civil rights movement, and now, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg, Jay-Z and Will Smith, his story is being adapted for the ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...