While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

Carrying signs with slogans including “FIGHT IGNORANCE NOT IMMIGRATION,” a crowd of more than 150 people gathered in West ...

Parker sat down with 12 News Gerron Jordan to discuss the murder that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Two men kidnapped, tortured and lynched Till in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

Good morning, Chicago. A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors yesterday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, ...

Last week, an attempted federal funding pause caused panic and confusion for people with disabilities and the services that ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Illinois is celebrating its rich history of Black Americans' contributions to the labor movement, including the creation of the first Black union in 100 years.

Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther ...

A look at the views and background of LDS lawyer Sheldon Gilbert, who is the new head of the influential Federalist Society.