Emmett Till Coverage

Biden establishes Emmett Till Monument

On what would have been Emmett Till's 82nd birthday, President Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi and Illinois.

Woman at center of Emmett Till killing dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham has died. Donham was the woman at the center of the Emmett Till saga.

Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today

Local historian reacts after grand jury declines to indict Emmett Till's accuser

A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago

Not enough evidence to indict woman in Emmett Till's killing, grand jury decides

A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago

Unpublished memoir of Emmett Till's accuser raises new questions

The White woman who accused Emmett Till of making advances toward her says the Black teen admitted it was him when her husband and two other men brought Emmett to her, according to a 99-page unpublished draft memoir.

Justin Gamble and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN

First look at the memoir of the woman whose accusations led to the lynching of Emmett Till

In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Emmett Till.

Emmett Till's family demands arrest of woman whose claim led to his death

Family members of Emmett Till are at the federal building in Jackson, Miss., demanding the arrest of Carolyn Bryant. Her false claims about Till sparked an angry reaction that resulted in his death.

Dozens in Raleigh searching for woman at center of decades-old arrest warrant in Emmett Till's murder

Dozens of people gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday to demand a decades-old arrest warrant be served on Carolyn Bryant Donham.

Aaron Thomas, WRAL reporter

Demonstrators in Raleigh demand justice for Emmett Till

Dozens of people gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday to demand a decades-old arrest warrant be served on Carolyn Bryant Donham.

Emmett Till family: We won't rest until justice is served

Calls for justice are growing louder in the Emmett Till murder case from more than 60 years ago in Mississippi.

Raleigh woman at the center of unserved warrant linked to Emmett Till's death

She's nearing 90 years old, but allegations of her ties to the kidnapping and murder from nearly 7 decades ago have recently bubbled up.

Chelsea Donovan, WRAL reporter

Activist demands arrest in Emmett Till's murder

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.

70 years later, never-served warrant found in Emmett Till case

A never-served warrant in the Emmett Till case has been found in the basement of a Greenwood, Mississippi, courthouse.

Emmett Till's family seeks arrest after 1955 warrant found for white woman who accused him before deadly lynching

A team of researchers including relatives of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, has discovered an unserved arrest warrant for the white woman whose accusations led to his gruesome death.

Alex Traub, New York Times

Congress makes lynching a federal crime

Passed unanimously by the Senate last year, the House approved the bill by a vote of 410 to four.

Emmett Till case reopened in what Duke historian calls 'cynical, hypocritical'

The Justice Department says it has new information in the Emmett Till murder case. Those details may have come from a book by a Dr. Timothy Tyson, a Duke University historian.

Duke author calls feds' new look at Emmett Till case 'a political show'

The federal government has quietly revived its investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy whose abduction and killing remains, almost 63 years later, among the starkest and most searing examples of racial violence in the South.

Alan Blinder, New York Times, Bryan Mims, WRAL anchor/reporter