Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America ...

If Emmett Till Lived”, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary ...

From architectural highlights to cultural happenings to Chicago’s spooky season, a look ahead at the next few months.

As the 71st Emmett Till Anniversary Commemoration Weekend begins today (Aug. 28), keeping his memory alive isn't optional, it’s critical...especially now.

A new space at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis explores the recent past and future of the movement.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The African American Museum of Iowa is opening a new exhibit on September 4. The exhibit is called Right Where We Belong: Black Resilience, Culture, & Community, 1964-1999.

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of protesters are rallying Friday on the National Mall in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws ...

As a Black American growing up in segregated Mobile, Ala., 11-year-old Jerome Gary Cooper likely never imagined that he would meet a future Catholic saint. He certainly never thought that a famous ...

When he was a boy in the 1940s, Jerome Smith climbed aboard the St. Claude Avenue streetcar in New Orleans and sat down in a section reserved for White riders. Smith was Black, and segregation was the ...

Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of an infamous terror attack: the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. On that Sunday morning, members of ...

(The Conversation) — More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s – and there have been attacks in recent years, too.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Family and friends gathered Saturday to remember six-year-old Winter Sky Jones, who died earlier this month after being left on a hot daycare bus for hours. Winter died Aug. 13 after ...