At age 14, African-American Emmett Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta nearly 60 years ago when he did something that wouldn’t turn a head today: He talked with, maybe even flirted ...
I’d been reading new books about hate crimes. So I did not expect to find myself stifling a laugh. Which happened while reading the best of these books, “The Trees” (Graywolf, $16) by Percival Everett ...
Mississippi senators and other officials have planted a tree at the U.S. Capitol to honor Emmett Till.The Chicago teen was kidnapped and killed in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a ...
As rain poured onto the Capitol grounds Monday morning, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., joined Republican senators and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., to plant a tree on the north side of the Capitol in ...
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder joined civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in planting a sycamore tree at the U.S. Capitol in honor of Emmett Till, the ...
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Monday, a tree planting ceremony was held in honor of Emmett Till at the U.S. Capitol. Senator Susan Collins sponsored the U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree in honor of ...