The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. During a recent visit to Milwaukee at Holy Redeemer Church ...

Cultural preservation organization African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund released $3 million in grants to 33 historic sites, including the childhood home of Emmett Till, the Black ...

I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

In 1955, Emmett Till was 14 years old and growing up Black at Chicago, a part of the great migration of African Americans who had left terrorist southern states in the 1930s. His single mother did all ...