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Martin Luther King Day: 25 people who paved the way for MLK

6:00 AM on 01/16/2012

SLIDESHOW - In this list of 25 people who paved the way for MLK there are familiar and unfamiliar names but all contributed in great and small ways to the creation of a better nation and world...

Closing civil rights era cold cases could haunt black America

By David A. Love

8:29 AM on 11/28/2011

OPINION - For African-Americans, the stakes are high. Black people still suffer from wounds of the civil rights movement, and remember the reluctance of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to go after civil rights murders...

Station tied to Emmett Till killing to be restored

By theGrio

10:03 AM on 08/01/2011

MONEY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as part of the story of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago...

Justice Dept. will not re-investigate Malcolm X case

By Ollie Montgomery

12:48 PM on 07/25/2011

theGRIO REPORT - However, many civil rights advocates still want the Justice Department to proceed, citing the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007...

Ex-director convicted of stealing from Emmett Till's cemetery

By theGrio

5:36 PM on 07/11/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Till's grave wasn't harmed, but his original glass-topped casket was discovered in a garbage-strewn storage shed during the investigation...

Years later, Miss. still lacks civil rights museum

By theGrio

5:32 PM on 11/25/2010

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The absence of a state museum to acknowledge these events leads some to question whether Mississippi is ready to embrace its role in history...

Till's murder still educates students about Civil Rights

By theGrio

5:21 PM on 10/14/2010

VIDEO - Simeon Wright had no idea he would witness the kidnapping of the man whose murder launched the civil rights movement...

Emmett Till relative talks of lingering racism fears

By theGrio

2:54 PM on 04/24/2010

ATLANTA (AP) - More than 50 years after Emmett Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, one of his relatives still worries that her brother might suffer violence for being a black man married to a white woman...

Q&A: One of Little Rock 9 speaks with daughter, a history maker in the making

By Spirit Trickey-Rowan

10:01 AM on 02/08/2010

Minnijean Brown Trickey has led a life of activism in the areas of civil rights and human rights. Her daughter, Spirit Trickey-Rowan, is one of theGrio's 100: History Makers in the Making...

theGrio Reflects: The Story Of Emmett Till

By theGrio

12:10 PM on 12/20/2009

VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back at the life of lynching victim Emmett Till...

The Smithsonian accepts Emmett Till's casket

By Christine M. Gordon

5:02 PM on 09/03/2009

From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just 14 years old when he was brutally beaten, shot in the head, and dumped in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a White woman. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley,...

Cemetery owner denies involvement in desecration

By theGrio via AP

1:50 PM on 07/15/2009

The owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery that's been closed by authorities amid allegations that workers dug up bodies and resold plots says he had nothing to do with the alleged wrongdoing.

Investigation begins at historic black cemetery

By theGrio

12:43 PM on 07/14/2009

The grisly work of the investigation is getting under way at a historic African-American cemetery as an FBI forensic team starts combing the most northern section of its grounds for unearthed remains. One of Chicago's first African-American cemeteries, Burr Oaks, was the resting place of many important historical figures, including...

Emmett Till's cousin speaks on cemetery scandal

By theGrio

5:24 PM on 07/11/2009

In suburban Chicago a scandal at an historic black cemetery got worse a day after four cemetery workers were charged with digging up bodies to re-sell gravesites. Hundreds came to the Burr Oak Cemetery trying to locate family members they thought had been laid to rest. Four cemetery employees are...

Stories of the grave and pool reflect the past

By Noel Anderson

5:10 PM on 07/10/2009

The recent discovery of Emmett Till's original casket in a rusting shed, yards away from where he was laid to rest by his mother, Ms. Mamie Bradley, in 1955 brought back memories of an ugly past. If you recall, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago youth, was brutally lynched by racists...

Emmett Till's casket found rusting in shack

By theGrio

11:51 AM on 07/10/2009

ALSIP, Illinois (AP) -- While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery...

Graves dug up and resold at cemetery where Emmett Till is buried

By theGrio

10:49 AM on 07/09/2009

Families whose loved ones were buried at Chicago's Burr Oak Cemetery are flocking to the grounds to find out if their plots are safe after investigators said as many as 100 graves were dug up so they could be resold. Often called the first African-American cemetery in Chicago, Alsip's Burr...