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A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

3:49pm August 23, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.

The former home of Emmett and Mamie Till is pictured in the West Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 26, 2020. It is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share in $3 million grant money from a preservation organization.

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Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

12:09pm July 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

A mural featuring a portrait of civil rights icon Emmett Till in Chicago.

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Emmett Till's family says 'white pedestal' theory has denied them justice for decades

5:00am July 14, 2022

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

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A woman holds a sign in honor of Emmett Till during a protest on June 13, 2020 in Chicago, Ill. Till's family urged authorities to move on a recently discovered unserved warrant from 1955 that charges a white woman for the murder and kidnapping of the tee

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Emmett Till's family says authorities are protecting the woman accused in his death

9:03am July 09, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

Family members and advocates say regardless of time passed and age, the arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham must still be served.

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Emmett Till's family seeks the arrest of a woman after a 1955 warrant is found

9:04pm June 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

A warrant for an arrest was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, said Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill.

A woman holds a sign in honor of Emmett Till during a protest on June 13, 2020, in Chicago. Protests erupted across the U.S. after George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Lynching is now a federal hate crime after a century of blocked efforts

6:45pm March 29, 2022

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks about the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which was named after a 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

Senate passes anti-lynching bill and sends federal hate crime legislation to Biden

7:22am March 08, 2022

by Peter Granitz

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which sets prison terms of up to 30 years, has been more than a century in the making.

After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill

9:56pm March 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.

A bullet-riddled sign that once marked where Emmett Till's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River is now housed at the Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Miss. The historic marker was taken down after three white fraternity brothers from the Univers

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'Why Don't Y'all Let That Die?' Telling The Emmett Till Story In Mississippi

7:38pm August 28, 2019

by Debbie Elliott

Emmett Till's 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi "to come to grips with its history of racial brutality."

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Insult To An Emmett Till Memorial In Mississippi

11:05pm July 25, 2019

by Debbie Elliott

An Instagram photo shows three white men, two holding guns, posing near the marker at the Tallahatchie River, where the murdered boy's body was pulled from the water in 1955.