Chukwu's unique vision comes through in the trailer, which shows Till Mobley interacting with her son during his life, as well as tending to his legacy after his death, speaking in court and at rallies to demand the prosecution of Emmett's murderers. "The lynching of my son has shown me...
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's house by two white men for allegedly flirting with one of the men's wives in the nearby town of Money. Till's mutilated body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River just up ...
Thompson took time to discuss“The Barn,”which began as a 2021 article in the Atlantic, and why he was compelled to return to the scene of a seminal American crime. Advertisement Wright Thompson’s “The Barn” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives – cultural...
This is howTilldepicts him, too: a boy who is self-assured, charismatic, upstanding and funny, with a knack for breaking the tension if the mood gets too tense. In an early scene, Emmett (Jalyn Hall) speaks with Mamie (Danielle Deadwyler) in his childhood bedroom. Illustrations of ...