The film is based on the story of Mamie Mobley Till, whose decision to give her son Emmett an open-casket funeral drew worldwide attention to White supremacist violence in America.

Citing new information in the case, the federal government will again examine the 1955 killing of the Black 14-year-old boy in Mississippi.

Henson will produce “The Emmett Till Story” and star as the slain boy’s mother, Mamie Till.

Two landmark moments, forever intertwined with the ongoing quest for Black liberation, took place eight years apart on the same day.

Students with the St. Louis-based Cultural Leadership organization offered their own fix for the vandalized sign.

“It is not acceptable for a White person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun,” reads Hannah Black’s open letter about Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket.”

Scholar John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the story of Emmett Till’s father, Louis. The U.S. Army convicted the elder Till of rape and murder during World War II and hanged him; leaks about his story derailed attempts to successfully convict his son’s murderers. The book is available today via Scribner.

The Wu-Tang Clan leader asks, ”Is the image that we portray [one] that could invoke a fear into a White officer, or to any officer?”

The director of “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” is joining forces with Whoopi Goldberg and others to create a new feature film, “Till.” 

This will be Smith’s and Jay’s first collaboration since 2014’s “Annie” remake.