Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new ...

Journalist Wright Thompson grew up 23 miles from the site where Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, yet Thompson never learned much of the crime until he left to attend college out of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full ...

Emmett Till's murder is one of the most harrowing events in American history. Till was 14 in 1955 when he was killed after a white woman accused him of making an advance toward her. Mississippi author ...

OXFORD — Author Wright Thompson's new book tells the story of Mississippi, and the entire nation, through the secret history of the murder of Emmett Till in Drew, Mississippi, in 1955. Thompson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at a white woman at a rural grocery store on an August Wednesday in 1955. The ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- In an effort to honor the start of Black History Month, people gathered at Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God and Christ for a book signing with Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr ...

A new book will shed light on the untold story of Emmett Till's father, Louis Till. Titled Writing To Save A Life: The Louis Till File, the book finds writer John Edgar Wideman trying to uncover the ...

You’ve driven past it so many times, that you haven’t actually seen it in ages. After all these years, it’s just a part of the scenery, something you barely even notice anymore. But what’s its story?

The ABC series “Women of the Movement” airs on television in January. A book written by Longview-born Devery Anderson formed the backbone of some episodes. Anderson also plays a juror in the latter ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Weeks after he published a book about the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a North Carolina author received a call from FBI agents asking about his interview with a key witness ...