President Biden walks to his motorcade as he leaves Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown section of Washington after attending Mass on Saturday.... Print WASHINGTON— President Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, according to a White House official.... Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett Till’s birt

“ We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know.... That’s what great nations do.” President Biden on July 25 signed a proclamation to establish a new national monument dedicated to Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley.... “ She said, ‘Let the people see what I’ve seen....

Till-Mobley died in 2003. Marvel Parker, who has a doctorate in divinity and is the institute’s executive director, and her husband, the Rev.... Parker said the institute is a way to further that work.... “ Our motive is to make sure not only is the story told but that it’s told correctly and Emmett’s legacy is preserved.” Marvel Parker said she was chosen to be the institute’s leader because of her background in management and nonprofit administration....

The 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi helped propel the civil rights movement.... We should know everything — the good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation.... That’s what great nations do.” On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community....

close Video Security stepped up around Emmett Till memorial marker after acts of vandalism The Emmett Till Interpretive Center is stepping up security around the Till memorial after years of vandalism. The Justice Department is closing its investigation into the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted and killed while visiting family in Mississippi after witnesses accused him of making sexual advances at a White woman.A 2017 book by Duke University professor T

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When George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter, Gianna, said," My daddy changed the world," Amos Smith was taken back to the night almost 65 years ago when the body of his cousin Emmett Till was brought back to Chicago from Mississippi." We knew something terrible had happened.... " It was about the same feeling I had that night I listened at the top of the stairs.... And I had to leave the room." The second episode of" Let the World See," airing Thursday, Jan....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved.... The complexity of what happened has been lost, ” said Dave Tell, a professor at the University of Kansas who wrote “ Remembering Emmett Till.” Till, who was 14 and from Chicago, went to Mississippi to visit relatives during the summer of 1955.... 24, witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in a rural grocery store, a violat

GREENWOOD, Miss.— For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood, a Black-majority city with a history of civil rights protests and clashes.... Protesters have demonstrated at the base of the towering pillar with six Confederate figures — some residents demanding removal amid a racial reckoning across the country, others advocating for the statue’s protection as a piece of history....