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“A placard was unveiled Tuesday to recognize Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville as a national monument that preserves the site where Till’s lynched body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.”

“The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument includes three protected sites, in Illinois, where Emmett was born 82 years ago to the day on Tuesday, and in Mississippi, where he was tortured and killed after being accused of whistling at a white woman.”

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to designate the church that held Emmett Till’s pivotal funeral in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood as a national monument.

Watch the opening program for the Washington D.C. stop of the “Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” traveling exhibit, featuring Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and best friend. The event took place January 26, 2023 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.

“Yesterday, the D.C. Public Libray opened a new Emmett Till exhibition at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library – Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See. For a limited time, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is bringing this exhibit to D.C. to share Till’s legacy.”

“Ahead of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, an annual interfaith breakfast dedicated to the civil rights leader honored the late Mamie Till-Mobley for work in her own community.”

On October 21, Loyola University announced a new scholarship named in honor of Mamie Till-Mobley. Mrs. Till-Mobley graduated from Loyola University’s graduate school of education in 1971. The scholarship is sponsored by Loyola's Black Alumni Board.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and other representatives from the Dept. of the Interior visited Roberts Temple on October 21, 2022 to see the site where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place. Following this visit to Roberts Temple, Dr. Marvel Parker and the Till Institute hosted Sec. Haaland in Summit Argo, IL, to see the sites where Emmett grew up.

The Till family, Till Institute, Emmett Till Interpretive Center, and Children’s Museum of Indianapolis partnered to develop the traveling exhibit “Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See.” View a 3D tour of the exhibit at the official exhibit website.

“Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” traveling exhibit opened at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis on September 16, 2022. It was developed collaboratively by the Till family, the Till Institute, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till's cousin and best friend, and last living witness to Till's abduction in 1955, released the following statement after a grand jury in Mississippi declined to charge Mrs. Carolyn Bryant Donham for her role in the 1955 lynching.

"The prosecutor tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to this day," Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr. said in a statement.

“Emmett Till’s family stood solemnly and appreciatively next to President Joe Biden as he signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which for the first time in United States history designates lynching as a federal hate crime. Reverend Wheeler Parker, Emmett Till's cousin and best friend, and last living witness to Till's abduction in 1955, and his wife, Dr. Marvel Parker, were invited to the White House by the President.”

“One hundred years and there never was agreement on a way forward to address this horror of racial violence,” [Christopher Benson] said. “It’s a good start, but now we have to enforce it.”

The Indianapolis Children’s Museum announces Emmett Till exhibit slated to open September 2022.

Important traveling Emmett Till exhibit opens in Fall 2022 in Indianapolis and travels across the South.

“Chicago Tonight” co-host and “Chicago Tonight: Black Voices” host Brandis Friedman moderate a community conversation focused on the legacy of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

The Till Family responds to the FBI’s Announcement of the closure of the Emmett Till lynching case with sadness but also a commitment to tell Emmett Till’s story so we can move forward in peace and justice as a nation.

The Chicago home of Emmett Till was acknowledged with events on what would have been his 80th birthday.

The 100th birthday of Mamie Till-Mobley is marked by the announcement of the Till Institute and its focus on racial reconciliation especially focused on youth.