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Family members of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black teen whose murder in the Jim Crow South spurred the civil rights movement in America, say they have unearthed an unserved arrest warrant for the White woman who accused him of making advances toward her, sparking the events that led to his death nearly 70 years ago.

Several local troopers with the Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop-D (Greenwood) have been promoted to Trooper First Class. Left to Right: TFC Jose Watson D-08, TFC Gary Liggins D-22, TFC Dillon Norwood D-27, TFC Kenneth Baron, II B-72, TFC Darren Johnson D-30, TFC Robert Land D-21, TFC Ryan Smith D-29, and TFC Dane Gibson D-10.

INDIANOLA — U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Black farm workers that his office would combat the racist wage and hiring practices by white farm owners during his first visit to the Mississippi Delta Thursday. The Department of Labor head’s pledge to local workers comes after a Mississippi Today...

More bad news tonight for the troubled Greenwood Leflore Hospital... Our news partners at The Taxpayers Channel report, at a Friday board meeting, the hospital disclosed financial losses for May totaled more than 3 million dollars, a million more than the month before. What's more, a financial presentation shows the...

The family of Emmett Till is resuscitating calls for the arrest of the White woman who claimed the Black teen whistled at her which led to his gruesome murder nearly 70 years ago in Mississippi. The kidnapping, hanging, shooting and overall mutilation of Till back in 1955 was so shocking...

An unserved arrest warrant from 1955 names Carolyn Bryant Donham in connection to the murder of Emmett Till.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) -It was a gruesome murder in 1955 of a 14-year-old boy that horrified people around the world. Emmett Till’s body was mutilated after falsely being accused of whistling at a white woman. Now, almost 70 years after his death, an outstanding arrest warrant for that woman...

New drama at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital. Our news partners at the Taxpayers Channel have learned the hospital recently fired two surgeons. The hospital reportedly fired Dr. Raymond Girneys and Dr. Alain Domkam, two long-time surgeons. The taxpayers channel also reports the hospital scrubbed the Delta Surgical Clinic from their...

June 30 (UPI) -- An unserved arrest warrant has been found for the White woman whose accusations led to the brutal 1955 murder of Black 14-year-old Emmet Till in Mississippi. Till's murder galvanized the civil rights movement. The warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80's, was found by...

(Reuters) - The family of Emmett Till has unearthed a nearly 67-year-old arrest warrant for the white woman whose discredited accusations against the Black teenager led to his lynching, a brutal death that helped ignite the civil rights movement. Last week, a team that included family members searching files in...

Florida State Professor Davis Houck — one of the country's leading scholars on the life and horrific death of Emmett Till — happened to be in Sumner, Mississippi, for a filmmaker’s workshop in late June when he got a call from a research associate with a bombshell development. The 1955 unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn...

CLEVELAND, Miss.—Earning a nationally recognized accreditation is no easy feat, but it’s a process Delta State University’s College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) has conquered once again. Educator preparation programs offered by Delta State’s CEHS were recently reaffirmed by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator...

INDIANOLA – The new crop of workers arrived with clipped accents and small khaki shorts. Richard Strong remembers the young men – farmers back home – had never seen a massive 28,000-pound tractor until traveling some 8,000 miles to Mississippi. As kids, Richard and his brother, Gregory,...

A team of researchers including relatives of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, has discovered an unserved arrest warrant for the white woman whose accusations led to his gruesome death. The document was found last week in the basement of a...