Making amends: Louisiana governor apologizes to protesters, families of slain students

BATON ROUGE—Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families of two Southern students who were killed by an unidentified sheriff’s deputy 50 years ago.

Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams

At 12:35 p.m. on Nov. 17, 1972, the phone rang in the office of acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray in Washington.

Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?

The secret memoir by the 88-year-old white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case contains new proof she is lying about the night he was killed, said the retired FBI agent who investigated the 1955 murder.

Our dad was in the Klan: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it’

Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement in the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Louisiana.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted

When Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the night as a child, he’d sometimes find his father Earcel in the bathroom, scrubbing his hands over and over.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: He ‘had a rage in him’

Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh.

In December 1964, Leland, then 12, stood in the doorway of a hospital room, where Frank Morris, a 51-year-old Black man from Ferriday, Louisiana, lay in critical condition after two men had torched his shoe shop.

Thanks to students, more FBI files on Klan violence could be released

Aditya Shah was a junior at Hightstown High School in New Jersey in 2015 when he and his AP Government and Politics classmates began studying cold cases involving Ku Klux Klan murders in the South.

Jo-Ed Edwards disappeared in a Klan-suspected abduction. His body’s never been found.

Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed slaying, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury.

Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases?

A retired FBI agent was at a Christian retreat in the late 1990s when a churchgoer confided he had witnessed a shooting of five Black men in 1960 that he believed had been racially motivated.

Second FBI prison probe in six years leads to removal of 10 employees. Staffers reportedly delivered steak, shrimp and meth to inmates.

A federal investigation into allegations of corruption at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility has led to the removal of 10 employees.

Justice Department calls it quits on Emmett Till probe. No charges.

The U.S. Department of Justice has shut down its investigation into the Emmett Till slaying, closing the door on possible charges.

A year after an Instagram photo of Ole Miss frats hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till sign went viral, questions remain.

A year has passed since an Instagram photo went viral of Ole Miss fraternity students hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign for civil rights martyr Emmett Till, and authorities still have not questioned those involved.