Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a civil rights advocate, author and ordained minister, will deliver the keynote address for a Black ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

Jackson is often referred to as the “Blackest city in America,” because African Americans comprise more than 80% of its ...

EMMETT TILL, FROM CHICAGO, WAS VISITING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH WHEN HE WHISTLED AT A WHITE WOMAN AT A GROCERY STORE. THAT WOMAN’S HUSBAND AND FRIEND KILLED TILL IN 1955. HIS DEATH SPARKED THE CIVIL ...

Local historians estimate around 11 lynchings happened in Madison County alone, and the Madison County Remembrance Project is working to commemorate each killing.

Till's cousin will share what he remembers about the night his cousin was kidnapped, tortured and lynched in 1955 ...

From Black history to Army history, coffee-time and craft connections, ongoing death and grief discussions, and a watercolor ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...