Miller is an 81-year-old Chicago native who served as the assistant secretary for nuclear energy from 2009 to 2010 and was a childhood friend of Emmett Till. Emmett’s 1955 abduction and lynching ...

He and his friends were enjoying the summer and dancing to a new music called rock and roll. Young Emmett Till, Courtesy: Mamie Till Mobley "The boys wore crepe-soled shoes, polyester pants and ...

(AP Photo) Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was not only Emmett Till’s cousin but also his best friend. "My grandfather came to Chicago to bury one of his parishioners, and they were going to send me ...

We need to tell the stories. It’s what Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. has been doing for 70 years, and it’s what he did again Friday in Lincoln for a small group who gathered to hear Emmett Till’s ...

On the evening of August 24, 1955, Emmett Till went with his cousins and some friends to Bryant's Grocery for refreshments after picking cotton in the hot sun. The boys went into the store one or ...

At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies ...

“They invent the myth of a defiant, stoic Emmett Till because they need to get rid ... The Black writer Zora Neale Hurston ...

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 ...