Photo courtesy of FacebookMIAMI – The cousin of Emmett Till is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, focusing her campaign on hate crimes and racial justice that tied together in the 14-year-old murder in 1955. Priscilla Williams-Till, a civil rights activist and Democrat, has launched a bid to challenge Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in next year’s midterm election for November 3, 2026. Williams-Till is the founder of the Emmett Till Justice for Families Foundation. According to the FBI, around August 28, 1955, Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten and shot in the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. Several white men lynched Emmett Till in the town of Money after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, accused him of whistling at her.