Darius Rice and Ashley Jackson want at least $11 million in damages from Stephen and April Tinsley, likening their encounter to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a Black boy who was abducted in the ...

Funerals have one rule above all others: respect the wishes of the bereaved immediate family. So Mayor Brandon Johnson made the correct call in not attending St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church on ...

If the past is any indication, the current protests roiling campuses could help change public perception about the ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker, the cousin and childhood friend of Emmett Till, recently spoke at KU's Spencer Museum of Art sharing his ...

Wheeler, the last surviving witness to the kidnapping of Till, said the prankster kid with a speech impediment and the ...

Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth. His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, ...

LAWRENCE — Black teenagers Wheeler Parker and Emmett Till were on vacation from Chicago when they stepped into the white-owned Mississippi Delta grocery store operated by Roy and Carolyn Bryant to buy ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker, 85, was a 16-year-old Chicago resident on vacation during August 1955 in the Mississippi Delta when friend and cousin Emmett Till wolf whistled at a white woman.

The Rev. Wheeler Parker, 85, was a 16-year-old Chicago resident on vacation during August 1955 in the Mississippi Delta when friend and cousin Emmett Till wolf whistled at a white woman. Within days ...

LAWRENCE — Black teenagers Wheeler Parker and Emmett Till were on vacation from Chicago when they stepped into the white-owned Mississippi Delta grocery store operated by Roy and Carolyn Bryant ...