Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 ...

CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil ...

The gun used in the murder of Emmett Till is on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025 in Jackson, Miss.. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used ...

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum put the gun on display Thursday, soon after the federal government released thousands of pages of records on the Till case. By Emily Cochrane and Audra D. S. Burch ...

LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. >> ALL RIGHT DAVID, THANKS. WELL. TODAY MARKS 70 YEARS SINCE EMMETT TILL WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN MONEY. MISSISSIPPI. FAMILY OF TILL AND ADVOCATES GATHERED AT THE MISSISSIPPI STATE ...

Emmett Till's lynching in 1955 inspired many in the Civil Rights Movement and echoes through today's fights for justice.

The exhibit comes as the Trump administration escalates attacks on DEI and censors how history is publicly presented.

The gun is now part of a permanent exhibition about TIll at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Mississippi Department of Archives and History After seven decades, the gun thought to have ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...