World & Nation
The Senate passes a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager killed by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Jan. 11, 2022
A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized.
Oct. 19, 2019
Till’s killing in Mississippi helped propel the civil rights movement. For the Black teen’s family, the proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story.
July 25, 2023
The investigation into the death of Emmett Till, one of the most notorious slayings of the Jim Crow-era Deep South, has been reopened more than 60 years after the 14-year-old African American boy’s mutilated body was pulled out of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River.
July 12, 2018
Movies
Chinonye Chukwu’s portrait of Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of the slain Emmett Till, shows much of the same intelligent restraint as her 2019 drama, ‘Clemency.’
Oct. 12, 2022
Letters to the Editor
Readers celebrate the president’s move to create monuments honoring Till, and share lessons we can learn today from his mother’s courage.
July 28, 2023
The U.S. Justice Department has told relatives of Emmett Till it is ending its investigation into the Black teenager’s lynching in 1955.
Dec. 6, 2021
A Mississippi grand jury declines to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
Aug. 9, 2022
In the manuscript, Carolyn Bryant Donham insists she didn’t know what would happen to 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
July 15, 2022
A White House official says President Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
July 23, 2023