I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

Milam, 35, left, his half-brother Roy Bryant, 24 , centre, who go on trial in Sumner, Miss., Sept. 18, 1955, and are charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till from ...

Mr. Thompson’s investigations show that Bryant and Milam did not act alone. Perhaps as many as 14 white men, one woman (the one whistled at), and possibly one Black man were involved in Emmett Till’s ...