Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

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

One of the areas you can explore is the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley ... toll of racial hatred and violence in America. Emmett's death catalyzed the civil rights movement and led thousands ...

But Trayvon will forever remain 17 because he was a Black teenager — seen as a threat simply for existing — and gunned down by a man who decided he didn’t belong in his own neighborhood. “Happy ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

America’s history is as complex as it is beautiful—a kaleidoscope of triumphs, trials, terrors and truths. Yet, for far too ...

It’s hard not to have something to say, however, about Mississippi’s book of the year — perhaps the book of the year nationally, one that’s a projected winner of multi publishing industry honors for ...

These general interest columns are essentially reactions to news events, which is standard operating procedure in the industry for this work. I haven’t written about many books over time.

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned, as his mother, Mamie, said in 1955, “in a pine box, so horribly battered and waterlogged that someone needed ...