The Latest Breaking News from Emmett Till

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana

Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was at the centre of Emmett Till's kidnapping and brutal lynching, has died in Louisiana after a battle with cancer. Till's family demanded justice after recovering an old arrest warrant but now the 88-year-old will never face persecution.

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. lives just outside Justice.

There's a new push to develop civil rights tourism in the Mississippi Delta where local groups are using federal dollars to preserve the stories before memories fade and landmarks are lost.

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, Emmett Till, was lynched in 1955. Today, he is the last living witness of the kidnapping.

Working in a public school now, would I be comfortable sharing texts that might lead to me being fined or jailed?

After her son was murdered, Emmett Till's mother, Mamie, made a decision that would change the course of history and propel the civil rights movement forward.

The film Till is based on the true story of the lynching of 14-year-old African-American boy Emmett Till, a murder Martin Luther King Jr called "one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the 20th century". A decision by Emmett's mother changed the course of history.

I still remember the raspy voice of the wizened cancer patient with the hole in her throat. So addicted to the poison that was killing her ‌— cigarettes ‌‌— she interspersed her words of warning about the dangers of smoking with taking puffs of a cigarette through her tracheostomy hole‌‌.