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Mark Keith Smith, a 26-year-old from Burien, has pleaded not guilty to murder in connection with a fatal road-rage shooting. Smith's bail remains at $1 million.

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located on three protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi.

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (July 25) honoured Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanise the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument spanning two states and a call for Americans to learn the country's full history. Till, 14 and visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi,...

Three sites connected to the 14-year-old boy's murder in 1955 will now receive federal protection

President Joe Biden establishes the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, honoring their legacies.

Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that was taken in front of a sign commemorating the murder of the 14-year-old black youth in 1955.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument across two...

President Biden is expected to sign a proclamation Tuesday designating locations associated with Emmett Till as a national monument.

President Biden is expected to sign a proclamation Tuesday designating locations associated with Emmett Till as a national monument.

The violent killing put a spotlight on the US civil rights cause after his mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, held an open-casket funeral and a photo of her son's badly disfigured body appeared in media.