When a white woman told me to keep my dog off her lawn while allowing others to frolic about, I thought maybe she just didn’t ...

In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's romantic comedy "The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe premiered in New ...

Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

With the education community scrambling to catch up with a new White House executive order regarding in-classroom teaching, a ...

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

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker shared untold stories about what happened after Till was found murdered.

Parker sat down with 12 News Gerron Jordan to discuss the murder that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Two men kidnapped, tortured and lynched Till in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting ...

Emmett Chappelle is a scientist and researcher who made valuable contributions in several fields including medicine, biology, ...

Students across Emmett School District are back in the classroom this morning. The district had canceled classes on Thursday last week following a surge of illnesses among students and staff.

"You could not identify his face because he was so badly beaten and they won the court case saying this is not Emmet Till, this is an old White man that you all have dug up out of the grave to ...