‘Till’ Director Chinonye Chukwu On Telling Mamie’s Story

Warning: Mild spoilers for Till below. In September 1955, Jet Magazine ran a story entitled, “Will Mississippi ‘Whitewash’ The Emmett Till Slaying?” The spread included a grotesquely graphic photo of the battered, mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago who, during a summer trip to visit family in Mississippi, was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched by a group of white men who falsely accused him of being inappropriate with a white woman. The picture, an unignorable reminder of the atrocities Black citizens were subjected to in the Jim Crow South, was widely circulated throughout the Black community… Read Full Article