Emmett Till

The Chicago Defender sits down with family members of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley to discuss the latest revelations by accuser, Cynthia Bryant. Bryant had testified that Till, 14 had verbally threatened her during the trial of his murderers–two white men, J.W. Milam and his half-brother, Roy Bryant. Both men had brutally murdered the Chicago […]

WE DO MATTER In what has been touted at another horrendous weekend of violence in Chicago there’s much to be said about last week. Black…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Sixty years after a Black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a White woman in Mississippi, relatives and civil rights…

National Human Rights Leader Alvin Sykes Calls For Expansion of Emmett Till Act  Kansas City Human Rights Activist Alvin Sykes,  along with the late Mamie…

WE ARE A MIRACULOUS PEOPLE                         E NOTES By Kai EL’ Zabar Executive Editor…

When the official announcement was released that Chaz Ebert would be producing a feature film on the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of 14-year old…

E NOTES By Kai EL’ Zabar Executive Editor It was 1955 in Money, Mississippi, while visiting family where 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago native, was…

By Special to the Daily WorldWho Killed Emmett Till? The murder of Emmett Till in August of 1955 became one of the pivotal moments...