EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf and his Wolf Entertainment are planning a feature documentary about Emmett Till. Wolf and his longtime collaborator Tom Thayer are exec producing Murder In America: The Lynching ...

1. Discovery and indictment. Two white men charged with kidnaping negro / Delta Democrat-Times ; Parents and relatives keep silent in case of boy charged with ugly remarks to storekeeper's wife / ...

Akeelah Phillips films the seed barn during the Mississippi Delta Film Academy’s trip to Drew, Mississippi, on June 21, 2024. The seed barn was the location where Emmett Till was tortured before being ...

I'm Ed Gordon and this is NEWS & NOTES. It's one of America's most infamous murders. Half a century ago a black teen-ager named Emmitt Louis Till was killed in Mississippi. His alleged attackers were ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The lead prosecutor in the reopened murder case of Chicagoan Emmett Till murder case says a New York filmmaker's documentary is the starting point of the investigation that ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The story of Emmett Till turned the nation’s attention toward racial injustice in the south nearly 70 years ago. In a traveling exhibit titled "Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A partnership event between Little Rock Central and Arkansas Cinema Society will be happening later this week, as part of the celebration of the 67th anniversary of Central High ...

Filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp, who worked on the 2022 drama “Till,” about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi, answers a question from Falcon Mickel, a Chaney High School freshman.

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...

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 ...