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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

A complex drama about a fictional Illinois-based Black American political family and the Civil Rights movement, “Purpose” returns Jacobs-Jenkins to Broadway after winning three Tony Awards in 2023 ...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara was hired the year following the protests in 2022. O’Hara focused on changing the ...

Illinois’ Gov. JB Pritzker can lead in an effort to develop state responses to counteract or disrupt Donald Trump.

A Wednesday executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” cited two sections of the U.S. federal code ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...