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NNPA NEWSWWIRE — We recalled “the good ole days” when kids who had a beef with each other fought it out – by hand. They exchanged punches and bruises, exhausted themselves, made up, and shortly were friends again. They lived to fight another day, and as years passed, looked back on the disagreement and laughed about it as a learning experience. The post COMMENTARY: Lost Art of Fighting – With Hands: Part II first appeared on BlackPressUSA.

By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier | Word In Black - Bryant, the white woman whose lies led to the brutal 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, died at age 88 without ever being held accountable.

The Black History Museum of Marion County is sponsoring several events during Black History Month, including two unveiling presentations at the museum as

The 91-year-old relative of the teen murdered in 1955 talks about his life and death during a ceremony in Riviera Beach.

The oldest living relative of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement, helped commemorate her cousin Sunday alongside the names of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Corey Jones and other Black people killed by police or civilians.

Emmett Till's name is etched in the parking lot of a Riviera Beach church as a reminder of the past and a symbol for the future.

On hand for the dedication of the parking bumper was Thelma Wright Edwards, 91, a cousin of Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

By VictorOmondi Emmett Till, a Chicago teen killed in the 1950s for the color of his skin, will be awarded a congressional gold medal. The then teen’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will also be awarded after she asked for the opening of the casket during burial as a way to decry the social vice that led […]

The Department of Justice announced that it is closing its cold case investigation into the murder of Emmett Till.

All these decades later, it’s still not even clear whether the gruesome homicide was the work of a pair of racist brutes or a larger group of conspirators.