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The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., center, Emmett Till's cousin, talks at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of Till's death at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip on Aug. 28, 2015. To his right are Calandrian Kemp, mother of George Kemp Jr.; Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo, and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland.

Remembering slain teen Emmett Till in his hometown of Chicago via civil rights tourism and a mobile app

September 1, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

Sixty-five years after the lynching of a child from Chicago, a new mobile app paves the way for civil rights tourism at the local sites central to his story. For...

Passengers wait in Los Angeles' Union Station, the western terminus for Amtrak's Southwest Chief.

Strangers on a train: The highs and lows of my 2-day rail journey from Chicago to LA

February 26, 2020 at 3:57 p.m.

At 6 a.m., the sun shoots through the back window of the Amtrak train car like an orange spotlight. Outside, the rails glow against the flat plains of western Kansas....

Cracklins (crispy, deep-fried pig skin), sweet tea and tamales served up for lunch during the Delta Hot Tamale Festival, an annual event held in Greenville in fall.

Hot on the trail of tamales, on a road trip through the Mississippi Delta

February 14, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

Along the mighty Mississippi, lies a 200-mile diamond-shaped swath of fertile farmland and floodplain known as the Mississippi Delta. It's a region rich with blues music, civil rights sites, and...

At the edge of the Taos Pueblo is the Pueblo cemetery, and in the distance, the ruins of the Spanish colonial Mission San Geronimo, which was destroyed by American cannon fire in the Mexican-American War.

A pilgrimage to the stark desert landscape that inspired painter Georgia O’Keeffe

November 19, 2019 at 9:37 a.m.

Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico appealed to us not for the usual reasons a tourist might seek out O'Keeffe Country, but because in the life she built there and the reasons...

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