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The murder of Emmett Till is one of the most upsetting events in American history, and is sadly a tragedy that continues to have relevance today. In the summer of 1955, the 14-year-old boy was brutally lynched and murdered by white men after he allegedly flirtatiously whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Despite the overabundance of evidence at the disposal of the court, the all-white jury found the murderers not guilty, indicating that racial justice may not be achievable under the current American legal system. Understandably, theres been a great deal of hesitation about bringing to life a historical event so tragic on the big screen, as a film must have something to value to say about the subject. Thankfully, the 2022 biopic Till explores the life of Emmetts mother, Mamie, thanks to an incredible performance by Danielle Deadwyler.

Exclusive: Dick Wolf and his Wolf Entertainment are planning a feature documentary about Emmett Till.

Wolf and his longtime collaborator Tom Thayer are exec producing Murder In America: The Lynching of Emmett Till, a two-hour feature documentary, alongside James Moll, the Oscar winner behind Holocaust doc The Last Days.

It will be directed by Sam Pollard, who has directed documentaries including MLK/FBI, and Llewellyn Smith, who directed South to Black Power and produced American Experience.

Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Till story. One was set in motion by the last four years of an FBI investigation with details never revealed before, including significant new revelations of the case and its findings. The traumatic memory of Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., the last surviving witness to the crime and Emmett Till’s cousin,...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose claim that 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at her during a grocery store visit led to the Black teenager’s brutal murder in August 1955, died of cancer Tuesday in Westlake, Louisiana. She was 88.

Donham’s death while under hospice care was confirmed today in a report filed by the Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, coroner’s office.

Donham, known as Carolyn Bryant at the time of Till’s lynching, was the 21-year-old owner-cashier of a small general store in Money, Mississippi, when she first encounter Till, a Chicago boy who was visiting relatives in town. After Donham told her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam that Till had whistled at her in the store – a claim that has been much disputed and remains unfounded – the two men abducted, tortured and murdered the boy.

The crime went unpunished – an all-white jury acquitted the two men,...

For Danielle Deadwyler, it’s never been about the praise. At the time of our phone call, the 40-year-old actor was days away from receiving a Bafta nomination for her performance in Till and had already scooped Outstanding Lead Performance at the Gotham Awards in November. She is the lead in Chinonye Chukwu’s film about the true story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched by white men in Mississippi in 1955. His killing, and the uproar that resulted, is considered a catalyst for the American civil rights movement and is an integral part of the country’s modern history.

Deadwyler stars as Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who was instrumental in ensuring that Emmett’s name would not be forgotten. Her portrayal of a heartbroken, furious, robbed mother, mourning the racist murder of her only child while campaigning for his justice, is one that is truly unforgettable.

Chinonye Chukwu’s feature drama Till for MGM’s Orion and United Artists Releasing will be honored with the Stanley Kramer Award at the 34th annual Producers Guild Awards, taking place at The Beverly Hilton on February 25, 2023.

Named after the director-producer responsible for some of the most pivotal social issue films in American history — including Inherit the Wind, On the Beach, The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner — the Stanley Kramer Award recognizes a production, producer, or other individuals whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues. Past recipients of the award include Rita Moreno and Jane Fonda, as well as such films as Get Out, Loving, Fruitvale Station, The Normal Heart, The Hunting Ground, An Inconvenient Truth and Hotel Rwanda.

Written by Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp and Chukwu, Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler), whose pursuit of justice for...

Till is a biographical drama directed by Chinonye Chukwu starring Danielle Deadwyler.

Premise

Fourteen year-old Emmet Till travels from Chicago to Mississippi on vacation to spend time with relatives. Tragedy strikes as young Emmet is beaten and shot to death by white supremacists, and his body is thrown into a river. Mamie Till Mobley, his mother, will relentlessly pursue justice. Till insists on showing the world what atrocity has been committed, first by allowing the media to publish images of her sons severely mutilated body, then fighting for justice to be served to the killers.

Till (2022) Movie Review

A movie that brings us the story of Till’s fight for justice. It is impossible not to be moved by this movie, and being a story that is based on real life events, it successfully conveys its purpose, or purposes. To bring the story up and close to people, and to...

The trailer of the upcoming biographical movie ‘Till was unveiled on Thursday. It gives a sneak peek into the relentless fight of Mamie Till-Mobley (played by Danielle Deadwyler) to seek justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett, who was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi in 1955.

In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief that turned into a revolution that is still going on, the viewers can see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world. Mamie Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist, whose son was murdered after accusations that he had whistled at a white woman, a grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.

For Emmett’s funeral in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the casket containing his body be left open because she wanted the world to see what they did to her baby. The trailer has good use of bright colours to bring...

The photo of Emmett Till has become part of American lore. It depicts a young Black teenager — innocent but flashing a level of sophistication beyond his years — dressed nattily in a white shirt and loosened thin black tie with a fedora atop his head. His expression is open, confident but not cocky, joyously looking out onto the world from a life he couldn’t possibly know would be cut so brutally and senselessly short. The picture was snapped by his mother on Christmas Day of 1954 when he was 13, a mere eight months before he was killed in a savage abduction, torture, and lynching.

With the release on October 14 of “Till,” which tells the true story of Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley‘s (played by Oscar contender Danielle Deadwyler) relentless pursuit of justice some 67 years after the event that lent considerable fuel to the nascent civil rights movement, there is renewed...

Chinonye Chukwu’s new movie Till, which is now out in theaters, is a difficult prospect. The basis for its story is the brutal 1955 lynching of the teenager Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, an event that has endured in the public consciousness largely because of the actions of his mother, Mamie, who took the vital step of arranging an open casket funeral for her son and wielded the power of the Black press to disseminate images of his unrecognizable body far and wide. Till is a movie about Mamie, more so than Emmett.

Plot: The true story of Mamie Till (Danielle Deadwyler), who became a tireless advocate for justice after the racially-motivated, brutal murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), in Mississippi.

Review: The saga of Emmett Till was likely not an easy one to translate to the big screen. After all, it’s the story of the brutal, racially motivated murder of a child by two men who never had to pay for their actions. It could have been a spectacularly tragic tale, but by shifting the focus to Till’s mother, Mamie, it becomes a powerful account of one mother’s fight for justice. Director/co-writer Chinonye Chukwu directs the film with great restraint, never shying away from the brutality of the crime, but stopping short of depicting the act itself. Rather than show Emmett’s mutilation at the hands of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, you hear one brutal,...

The feature film "Till" is based upon the heartbreaking true story of the lynching of Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall) during a trip to visit family in Mississippi. The film focuses on his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler), and her quest to make the world pay attention to her son's death. The film culminates in the trial of the men charged with Till's death and the courtroom testimony of Carolyn Bryant (Haley Bennett), who made the original claim about his behavior. But in 2017, a new book made a shocking revelation: parts of her testimony were allegedly lies.

Vanity Fair reported on the revelations, which were part of a book by a Duke University senior research scholar named Timothy Tyson called "The Blood of Emmett Till." In the book, Tyson recounts speaking with Carolyn Bryant Donham about the Till case and her role in it.

In 1955, Donham's accounts of her interactions with Till changed a few times,...

The final weekend of the 2022 London Film Festival arrived with the premiere of Till. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Whoopi Goldberg and was written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu who also directed.

Till will be released on the 13th of January, 2023. Colin Hart, Ethan Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, Here are their interviews.

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Plot:

While in Mississippi for a family visit, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered after being wrongfully accused of harassing a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. When it became clear that the white establishment was unconcerned with bringing his killers to justice – and Bryant was prepared to lie to protect the murderers – Emmett’s mother Mamie turned reluctant activist, her fight becoming a major catalyst for the US Civil Rights movement.

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“This story was one I had to do,” admits Gina Prince-Bythewood about directing the pilot episode of ABC’s historical drama “Women of the Movement.” “That’s how I guide my decisions,” she declares, adding for our recent Q&a, “There’s so much stuff I want to do, but what do I have to do?” We talked with Prince-Bythewood as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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ABC’s “Women of the Movement” was created by Marissa Jo Cerar, based on the books “Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement” by Devery S. Anderson and “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America” by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson. The historical drama centers on Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren...

Update (3/15): Jussie Smollett has been moved to a new jail cell with a standard bed instead of one designed for restraining mental health patients, but his brother says he’s still worried.

“At this point, our biggest priority is getting our brother out of jail. He’s a strong individual, but it’s not right. It’s traumatic. It’s a mental marathon. We want to get him out,” brother Jocqui Smollett tells Rolling Stone on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, Cook County sheriff’s officials confirmed Jussie Smollett...

After Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation for staging a hate crime against himself, the former “Empire” star is at the center of a #FreeJussie campaign with fellow actors speaking out.

Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, his wife Latanya Richardson Jackson, and more previously asked Illinois Judge James B. Linn to not sentence Smollett to prison time in a letter written to the judge. Jackson wrote that Smollett “comes from a good family” that can “provide the support and monitoring assistance that they can provide for him in an alternative probation scenario.”

The “Pulp Fiction” star continued, “Jussie has already suffered a great deal of punishment, as this situation has destroyed his existing career and impugned his reputation. Please Judge Linn, in God’s name, please save this young man and allow him to be of service. Jussie Smollett is worth the risk and the investment.

Instagram is rapidly becoming the go-to source of Jussie Smollett defenders.

Today, Smollett’s fellow Empire castmate Taraji P. Henson took to the service to plead for home confinement rather than jail for Smollett, who was sentenced Thursday to 150 days incarceration for his role in creating a hate hoax.

She posted a stark black and white message with the hashtag #FreeJussie and a full-throated call for his release. Smollett is reportedly in Cook County Jail’s psych ward where high-profile prisoners are kept.

“I am not here to debate you on his innocence,” Henson wrote. “But we can agree that the punishment does not fit the crime. Emmett Till was brutally beat and ultimately murdered because of a lie, and none of the people involved with his demise spent one day in jail, even after Carolyn Bryant admitted that her claims were false.

Henson added, “No one was hurt or killed during Jussie’s ordeal.

Women of the Movement is ABC's upcoming six-episode anthology series based on Emmett Till's murder in 1955 and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who subsequently became an activist as she demanded justice, helping ignite the civil rights movement. ABC recently shared a teaser trailer and behind-the-scenes look after setting a release date for the show.

"Today marks 65 years since the tragic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. This limited series will shine a light on the determined pursuit of justice by Emmett's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley," Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment, told Deadline last year. "Their story involves inconceivable heartbreak and brutality but also the enduring love of a mother and her son, galvanizing a movement that carved the path for today's racial justice movement. We are honored to be bringing their story to ABC backed by an all-star producing team."

What Is Women of the Movement About?

The ABC series will...

Say his name. "His name is Emmett Till. I want people to know he is good boy," says mother and civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley (played by Tony winner Adrienne Warren) in a first look clip for ABC's new drama Women of the Movement. The six-episode historical drama, which will premiere on Jan. 6, is based on Mamie's real-life journey, in which she sought justice for her son Emmett (Cedric Joe). For those unfamiliar with the facts of the crime, Emmett was murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955 after allegedly offending a white grocery store cashier, named Carolyn Bryant. He was only 14. Glynn Turman, who plays Mose Wright in the upcoming series, points out in the clip that this will...

Haley Bennett, the first recipient of EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s New Generation Acting Award, will follow Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” with Whoopi Goldberg-produced “Till,” about the infamous murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of “offending” white woman Carolyn Bryant. Her husband and his half-brother were acquitted, but later confessed to the murder.

“In America, it was a reckoning, but I didn’t have a deep knowledge of it. I thought: ‘I can’t be the only one.’ Bringing this story to light again, at the time when we desperately need it, was important to me,” Bennett tells Variety at the festival in Toruń, Poland, admitting that playing Bryant meant “carrying around hate and fear, paranoia and anger.”

“I don’t want to live in ignorance. If I can learn something about the history of America, then I am not standing still.

ABC announced that “Women of the Movement,” the upcoming limited series based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley, will premiere on Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. The six-episode series will air in three parts for three consecutive weeks.

Adrienne Warren stars as Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till (Cedric Joe), who was brutally lynched in 1955 in the Jim Crow South. The series sees Mamie risk her life seeking justice for Emmett, keeping his name and murder in the news and igniting the Civil Rights movement. Tonya Pinkins plays Mamie’s mother Alma Carthan; Ray Fisher plays Gene Mobley, Mamie’s husband who was a father figure to Emmett; Glynn Turman plays Mose Wright, Mamie’s uncle; Chris Coy and Carter Jenkins play Emmett’s murderers J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, respectively, and Julia McDermott plays Carolyn Bryant, the white woman Emmett was falsely accused of sexually harassing.

“My son, he’s a good boy,...

ABC will revisit a major piece of civil rights history as the new year gets underway.

Women of the Movement, the Alphabet Net’s limited series about Mamie Till-Mobley and her pursuit of justice for son Emmett Till, will premiere Thursday, Jan. 6, at 8/7c, the network announced Thursday. Spanning six total episodes, the miniseries will air in that time slot for three consecutive weeks.

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ABC released the trailers for its new 2021-22 series Tuesday, pegged to the unveiling of the broadcast network’s fall schedule. That includes the first look at Lee Daniels’ remake of “The Wonder Years” — complete with an updated take on that classic theme song.

Below, see the trailers for “The Wonder Years” and ABC’s other new dramas and comedies, along with the series’ descriptions, each in the network’s own words.

Readers can find ABC’s full fall 2021 schedule here.

New Fall Series

Queens

Estranged and out-of-touch, four women in their 40s reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches – their ’90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world.

“Queens” stars Eve as Brianna aka Professor Sex, Naturi Naughton as Jill aka Da Thrill, Nadine Velazquez as Valeria aka Butter Pecan, Taylor Selé as Eric Jones, Pepi Sonuga...

After the success of The Bachelorette, delayed by the pandemic, as a Tuesday 8 Pm anchor last fall, the ABC reality series will be back in the time slot this coming fall with the second of two 2021 cycles. Among the few changes on the ABC schedule from last fall is the move of breakout freshman drama Big Sky to the network’s high-flying Thursday lineup. There, it will succeed canceled Rebel in the 10 p.m. hour, following ABC’s highest-rated scripted series Grey’s Anatomy, which again has spinoff Station 19 as a lead-in.

Here is ABC’s fall 2021 schedule, which features two new series, comedy The Wonder Years and drama Queens, followed by a brief analysis and descriptions of all of ABC’s new scripted series for next season

ABC Fall 2021 Schedule

(New programs in Upper Case)

Monday

8 Pm — Dancing with the Stars

10 Pm – The Good Doctor

Tuesday

8 Pm — The Bachelorette...

Exclusive: Chris Coy, Julia McDermott and Carter Jenkins are set to co-star opposite Adrienne Warren in ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.

The six-episode limited series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.

McDermott, Jenkins and Coy will play Carolyn Bryant, her husband Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J. W. Milam, respectively, the Mississippi trio at the center of Emmett Till’s murder.

Tonya Pinkins and Glynn Turman also co-star.

Women of the Movement is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. Cerar serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jay-Z,...

There was a fleeting moment, in the beginning of this unprecedented global pandemic, when I was released from the gravity of my skin.

Our country was quarantined, isolated, imagining the worst from an invisible enemy. In Seattle, everyone wore masks, myself included. The world had emptied, and for the first time in my life, I was able to move through it relatively unnoticed.

Every day, my routine was the same. Wake up. Scan the news. Don a hat, gloves and mask before leaving home to walk my dog Hudson, and maybe even jog a bit.

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We meet young Emmett Till in episode three of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost.” Till, referred to as “Bobo” and portrayed by Rhyan Hill, is seen using a Ouija board in Leti’s basement the night of her housewarming, alongside Diana (Jada Harris), and Gil. The kids take turns asking questions, which the board answers, and when Bobo asks if he’ll have a good time on his trip, the board says no. It’s a brief moment in the story, but the meaning becomes much deeper once you realize that it’s the summer of 1955 and the trip in question is his visit to Mississippi to visit relatives.

Emmett Till was a real person and he was 14 years old when he travelled to the Mississippi Delta in late summer to visit family. On Aug. 24, 1955, Till, his cousins, and some friends went to Bryant Grocery in Money,...

Exclusive: ABC is developing Women of the Movement (working title), an anthology series that chronicles the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it. The project, which landed at ABC with a significant penalty attached to it, comes from writer Marissa Jo Cerar (The Handmaid’s Tale) and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.

The first eight-episode season is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. It will center on Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till, who devoted her life to seeking justice in her son’s name following his brutal murder in the Jim Crow South.

Women of the Movement is being written by Cerar and executive produced by Jay-Z, Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith of Roc Nation; Will Smith and James Lassiter of Overbrook Entertainment...

In April, when a white woman called the police on two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks, the video of the event went viral. The men were accused of not making a purchase and therefore trespassing. They did not damage property or assault anyone, but their lingering was enough to cause them to be ejected from the store. Most significantly, there was never a confrontation between these men and the woman who called the police.

In the following weeks, a white woman called the cops on a group of black...

Murder can be a message, and the men who lynched Emmett Till in 1955 surely sought to communicate through his broken and bloated flesh. The 14-year-old boy falsely accused of sexually harassing Carolyn Bryant in Money, Mississippi, instantly became both a victim and a lesson. Had his killers wanted to merely scare him, they could have. No, Emmett was beaten, shot, then tied to a cotton gin fan and set down in the Tallahatchie River to tell every black person in the surrounding area – and perhaps the entire United States – that our lives were meaningless,...

“My Nephew Emmett” seeks to show a different perspective of what lead to the brutal murder of Emmett Louis Till in 1955. The film, one of the five nominees for the Best Live Action Short Oscar, is told from the point-of-view of Mose Wright, Emmett’s uncle that he was visiting in Mississippi. The film, which claimed a Gold Medal at the Student Academy Awards, is one of this year’s nominees at the Oscars for Best Live Action Short and marks the first bid by writer and director Kevin Wilson Jr.

The film opens with Mose showing Emmett how much cologne to apply but Emmett still puts on too much. While Emmett goes into town with his cousin, Maurice, Mose is told he needs to take a bath. When he goes to get water for the bath he encounters a neighbor at the pump. The neighbor says that he’s...