Will Smith And Jay Z Team Up To Tell Women’s Civil Rights Stories

Two of the biggest Black names in Hollywood are teaming up to bring our stories to the silver screen in…
08.07.19

Outrage Over Jesse Williams Turning Emmett Till’s Mother Into A Nike Slogan To Promote Movie

Jesse Williams will direct a film about the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 after…
06.07.21

Emmett Till Courthouse To Be Converted Into A Museum

The Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted in Emmett Till’s death in 1955,…
02.03.21

President Obama Signs ‘Emmett Till Bill’ To Reopen Civil Rights Cold Cases

In 1955, the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American teenager who was lynched after allegedly flirting with a White…
02.03.21

60 Years After His Horrific Murder, Emmitt Till Is Remembered And Celebrated

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in…
08.28.15