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 ...

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager ...

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 ...

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible death. That alone shows how slow justice can be for people of color in America. In January, 67 years ...

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 → ...

CBS News has obtained a list of 365 federal grant programs halted this week by the Justice Department, disrupting programs to help victims of hate crime and sex trafficking, children who've ...

US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday. The BBC's Sumi ...

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 ...