Cultural preservation organization African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund released $3 million in grants to 33 historic sites, including the childhood home of Emmett Till, the Black ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History are holders of some ...

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 1955, file photo, mourners pass Emmett Till's casket in Chicago. Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was kidnapped, tortured and lynched for whistling at a ...

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund provided $750,000 in grant funding since 2017 to help rescue sites important to the Till legacy. With its partners, the Andrew Mellon Foundation ...

Till, a Black Chicagoan, was just 14 when he was kidnapped in Mississippi on the night of August 28, 1955, by two white men who accused him of behaving disrespectfully towards a white woman ...

Emmett Till’s death shocked millions of people across America and was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, but many ...

The Bronzeville church that held Till's funeral is celebrating his life by restoring the building to its former glory.