For decades, this haunted piece of history — the weapon allegedly used to kill Emmett Till — lay in a wooden drawer, gathering dust. That changed in 2004 when FBI agent Dale Killinger began ...

The death of a 21-year-old Black student discovered hanging from a tree at Delta State University in Mississippi has been ...

After an autopsy confirmed that a Black student at Delta State died by suicide, attorney Ben Crump said that Reed's body will ...

The 21-year-old Black student was found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi on ...

Mississippi police on Wednesday awaited autopsy results for a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State ...

The death of Demartravion "Trey" Reed, a 21-year-old black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, has been ruled a suicide by authorities, sparking controversy and skepticism.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement [Getty Images] Thousands of pages of records have been released in the US detailing the government's response to the ...

Officials say displaying the weapon is meant to spark reflection on Till’s lasting legacy and the Civil Rights Movement his death helped ignite. The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till ...

Seventy years after Emmett Till's lynching, the fight for racial justice and voting rights continues. Book bans and gerrymandering threaten to erase history and suppress minority votes. Despite ...