Editor's Note: On July 12, the federal government reopened its investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. August 28, 2015 marked 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered after ...

"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 ...

Here is a look at who he was, the outrage at his murder and the acquittal of his killers, and how he has shaped the civil rights movement in America. By Adeel Hassan In late summer 1955, Mamie Till ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Emmett Till with his mother, Mamie Bradley, ca. 1950. To expose the horror ...

Lost Innocence: Had Emmett Till lived, he would have turned 79 this year. What birthed the civil rights movement? The question is still widely debated, but within this decades-long fight to eradicate ...

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

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 ...

Before Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin, there was Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The failure to punish his ...

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 ...

Chinonye Chukwu’s new film reminds us that before his gruesome murder galvanized a civil rights movement, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy with a doting mother. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...

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 ...