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.

A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 murders

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Not a day has passed during the past 62 years that Willie Gibson hasn’t thought of Louisiana and the horrific shootings in Monroe that left four of his friends and co-workers dead and a fifth seriously wounded.

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.

‘Y’all Going to Kill Me?’ Years Apart, Mother and Son Die in Police Restraints

GRENADA, Mississippi — Robert Loggins wandered into a neighbor’s backyard and fell down, crying for help. A woman dialed 911, telling the operator, “Please hurry!”

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.

“The entire system is not designed for men”: how America silences and fails to help Native American men who survive domestic violence

The domestic violence experienced by Native American women makes headlines…
But a 2016 report from the National Institute of Justice found that 4 in 5 Native American men have experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime, too.

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.

Over the past 3 years, diabetes has killed more Americans than all the wars over the past century. Mississippi is ‘ground zero’ in that fight.

Bombs are exploding across the nation, with injuries and casualties reaching the millions, but few recognize the war that is taking place, experts say.

That war is diabetes, and Mississippi is ground zero, the only state in the nation where every county is in what researchers call the diabetes belt.

A case that ‘flips justice on its head’: Victim, not shooter, convicted in 1960 bloodbath

More than six decades ago a grand jury assembled to hear a grisly case. Four Black men had been shot to death and a fifth seriously wounded in a hail of gunfire on Ticheli Road near Monroe, Louisiana.