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 original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

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 ...