The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

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

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

Trump plans to try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy decisions. But ...

A Wednesday executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” cited two sections of the U.S. federal code ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

Carrying signs with slogans including “FIGHT IGNORANCE NOT IMMIGRATION,” a crowd of more than 150 people gathered in West ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

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 ...