Cory Booker, Tim Scott and House representative Bobby Rush introduced the bill, named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally kidnapped and murdered by two white men in ...

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Emmett Till's cousin says people should learn about the black teenager's brutal death that energized the civil rights movement. But the Rev. Wheeler Parker also says ...

'Justice for Emmett Till and many families who have civil rights cases pending at the DOJ is not a black issue.' ... 2020, Congress passed legislation making lynching a federal hate crime.

The Justice Department announced in December 2021 that it had closed an investigation into Ms. Bryant, who was quoted in a 2017 book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” as saying that she had lied ...

Legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was years in the making. (Chicago ...

In the heart of America's persistent struggle for racial justice, we pause to honor the life and legacy of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder on Aug. 28, 1955, in Money ...

Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago Chicago Tribune file photo / Tribune News Service via Getty Images “Oh, mama,” she recalled him saying, “it can’t be that ...

April 27 (UPI) --Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till before he was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955, died of cancer Tuesday. Donham died in ...

Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. The alert system will serve as a type of warning system to sound an alarm about acts of hate committed against Black people.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Over the course of about a week in 1955, “Emmett Till ...

In 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law H.R.55 — Emmett Till Antilynching Act — which finally made lynching a federal hate crime.