Emmett Till

Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law

D.C. performance artist Sheldon Scott has hulled rice by hand for so long this week that his fingerprints are wearing off. He’ll do the grueling work for a few days. His enslaved ancestors on the South Carolina coast did it for years.

A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The brutal slaying of the 14-year-old black teenager helped spur the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The 14-year-old African American teen was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white...

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Bill Cosby’s wife called Thursday for a criminal investigation into the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case that could put the 80-year-old comedian in prison for the rest of his life was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy.”

The Department of Justice is considering reopening the investigation into the infamous murder of Emmett Till — an African-American teen whose brutal killing charted the course of the civil rights movement– after meeting with the boy’s family, NBC News reported. Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told her “no one gets a pass,” adding that he...