Update 12/07/2021 9:05am:

According to reports, the U.S. Justice Department has closed the investigation into Emmett Till, a young Black boy who was lynched in 1955 after witnesses allege that he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. Since then, an investigation was run into the accuser—Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was accused of lying about if Till touched her.

The family of Till spoke on the DOJ not filing any charges against Donham, with Rev. Wheeler Parker—Till’s cousin saying, “Today is a day we will never forget.  For 66 years, we have suffered pain. I suffered tremendously.” The investigation was launched into Donham after a book described the woman saying she lied when claiming that Till grabbed her and whistled at her.

The DOJ released a statement, saying, “In closing this matter without prosecution, the government does not take the position that the state court testimony the woman gave in 1955 was truthful or accurate. There remains considerable doubt as to the credibility of her version of events, which is contradicted by others who were with Till at the time, including the account of a living witness.”

source: Fox9

Original 07/12/2018 6:30pm:

The U.S. Justice Department has received "new information" in the murder investigation of Emmett Till, which they have decided to re-open.

This comes nearly 63-years after the brutal and racist murder of Till, who was captured and killed after he was accused of whistling at a white woman while visiting his family in Mississippi. The woman, Carolyn Bryant, later told author Timothy Tyson that her testimony about Till grabbing her around the waist and uttering obscenities was not true.

Bryant told Tyson, “Honestly, I just don’t remember. It was fifty years ago. You tell these stories for so long that they seem true, but that part is not true.”

Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam were identified as the killers by Till's uncle, Mose Wright. The two men were found not guilty by an all-white jury in the closely watched case that helped spur the civil rights movement in the 1950s. The filmmakers of the PBS documentary, "The Murder of Emmett Till" spoke to other witnesses who say there were other accomplices involved in the murder.

Source: NPR