Shonda Rhimes continues her dedication to preserving Emmett Till’s legacy, donating $1.5 million to acquire the barn where ...

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will be open to the public as a "sacred" memorial site by 2030.

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has bought a barn outside Drew, Mississippi, where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955. Why it matters: The purchase of the barn, which has ...

Five people have been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, officials said. Teviyon L. Powell, 29; William Bryant ...

Daphne Chamberlain was in the fifth grade, living in Northaven Woods, when she saw one of the “most disturbing” images she’s ever seen. She had just checked the mailbox and was flipping through a ...

A look back on the case of 14-year-old Emmett Till, 70 years after his white killers were acquitted of his lynching. Sept. 23, 2025, marks 70 years since two white men were found not guilty in the ...

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., the only son of President JFK Jr., said “I do” on September 21, 1996, in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island off the Georgia coast. Although their ...

Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) revealed Wednesday that she’s being urged to run for her old House seat and keeping her “options open” following Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-NY) decision to not seek ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

14-year-old Emmett Till was killed after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman in Mississippi. 70 years after his death, we’re looking at the story surrounding the tragic event. On ...

Seventy years ago this Thursday, a group of white men killed a 14-year-old Black boy in a barn just outside Drew, Miss. The boy was from Chicago. The murder became one of the most famous cases in ...

Dear Carolyn: My daughter majored in an area people routinely mock as impractical — think philosophy, art history, etc. Over the years, my daughter got a master’s and then a PhD — all the while family ...