The latest crop of participants in the Mississippi Delta Film Academy was filming shots of Drew, Mississippi - the backdrop of this year’s whirlwind course that teaches local students the ins and outs ...

Cuts at the hands of DOGE are threatening to eliminate the budget for NPS by roughly $1 billion, putting the Emmett Till ...

Set in a storied landscape of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, MS, welcomes you with the sounds of the blues, the flavors of ...

The artwork of Louis B. Burroughs Jr., a prolific African-American artist who lives in Orange, was the focus of the opening event of the village’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration Thursday (June 19) ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to revoke or shrink certain national monuments as part of an anti-DEI movement.

Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned, as his ...

How a new book honors Emmett Till: ‘The specifics are what make it real’ Wright Thompson’s new book is about the site of Emmett Till’s murder.

Jean-Marcel St. Jacques made a "wooden quilt" from scraps of Emmett Till's home. The artwork links Till to Kongo spirituality, New Orleans, an Afro-Cuban revolutionary and more.

In 1955, a joyful 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was abducted in the night, tortured and murdered — all for purportedly whistling at a white woman. His killers, those publicly known, were ...

A display from the “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” exhibit at the KU Spencer Museum of Art is pictured on April 24, 2024. In the car, the cloud of dust behind it was ...

A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps ...

Opens April 6; Closes Sept. 15 Second Floor, East During a visit to see his great uncle in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, of Chicago, was brutally lynched Aug. 28,1955.