Ronald Collins, author of Tragedy on Trial, about Emmett Till's murder, will be part of a National Constitution Center ...
A white woman whose accusation against black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching and murder has died. Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died in a hospice in Louisiana on Tuesday. Prosecutors sought ...
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 ...
Editor's note: The video in this story is from a previous report. A visiting professor of Emory University's School of Law is providing insight after Carolyn Bryant Donham died. Donham was the ...
In 1955, a white woman alleged that a Black teenager whistled at, grabbed and said obscene things to her in her grocery store in Mississippi. The result? A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Louis Jean Batiste was shot and killed during a dice game in the Third Ward nearly 50 years ago and the killer was never caught -- until now. Another Houston cold case has ...
Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till ...
Family has requested the Jackson Police Department to assist in investigation into Dau Mabil's death, saying they suspect ...
My colleague Zahara Hill and I are chugging along with “The Reconstruction,” our ongoing celebration of the people fighting to rebuild America’s historical memory of Black history as ...
Carolyn Bryant Donham poses for a photo in 1955. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the ...
Walking into the Culver Center for the Arts, the University of Riverside’s downtown art gallery, I passed an exhibition titled “Whatever Happened to Dyno-Woman: An Alternate History of an ...