It was announced yesterday that Emmett Till’s childhood Chicago home will be one of 33 sites to receive a portion of $3 million in a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Source link Related Posts Black Couple Had Their White Friend Pose As The Owner and Their Home Appraisal Magically Went Up 500K […]
The circumstances behind the 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi has recently just added some more twists to the story. A unpublished memoir was released that was written by Carolyn Bryant Donham, the wife of one the men who killed Till according to the Associated Press. […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant […]
(BPRW) USBC Commends Congress and President Biden on The Emmett Till Antilynching Act (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) commends both Congress and President Joe Biden for signing the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law. For the first time in United States history, lynching is a federal hate crime. USBC […]
The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. released a statement on Tuesday regarding President Joe Biden signing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Read the full statement below: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. congratulates President Joe Biden on signing historic legislation into law named for the late Emmett Till today making lynching a federal hate […]
Those found guilty of lynching could face up to 30 years in prison. The bill introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Andrew S. Clyde, R-Ga. were among those who voted against the new bill. “By passing my Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, the House has sent a resounding message that our nation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing. Till was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said […]
The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday that it is ending its latest investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. A person familiar with the matter informed The Associated Press about […]
Did you know that the first Black Major League Umpire Emmett Ashford was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi? Ashford crossed through the Upsilon Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Emmett Ashford was born in Los Angeles, California, and played baseball in high school. After being asked to fill in for an umpire in […]