CHICAGO (CBS) – In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was found dead in the waters of Mississippi. He has been tortured and lynched after being accused of whistling at a white ...

"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the ...

"We're talking about misogynoir, like, it comes in all kinds of ways, whether it's direct or indirect. It impacts who we are," she said Danielle Deadwyler is speaking out after her movie Till did not ...

The story of Emmett Till is considered to be the catalyst of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Till was a 14-year-old from Chicago visiting a family member in Mississippi when he was kidnapped ...

The film’s writer-producer reflects on the drama’s long journey to the screen — only one part of his life’s work to bring justice for Emmett Till. By Keith Beauchamp My mission to get Till made is a ...

A sign memorializing Emmett Till has been vandalized for the third time, according to local outlet the Clarion Ledger, shot through with bullets. The sign, which was put up outside of Glendale, Miss.

Telling the tragic true story of 14-year-old Emmett Till is no easy feat but rising star Jalyn Hall brings him to viscerally painful life in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till. Hall reminds us that Emmett was an ...

Families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin will attend Till's commemoration. — -- Today marks 60 years since Chicago teenager Emmett Till was killed at age 14 for apparently whistling at a ...

Emmett Till’s life and and his and his mother’s fight for justice are shown in the powerful new trailer for the movie “Till.” It’s the first trailer for the movie, which centers around Till, a 14-year ...

CHICAGO – For more than six decades, a mystery has swirled around the Emmett Till case, a mystery involving the photograph of a white girl. Till, 14, who was black, was abducted Aug. 28, 1955, and ...

The dentist was a few minutes late, so I waited by the barn, listening to a northern mockingbird in the cypress trees. His tires kicked up dust when he turned off Drew Ruleville Road and headed across ...

Two-year-old Mamie Carthan arrives in Argo, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, with her mother. Her father has arrived several months ahead of the family to work at the Argo Corn Products ...