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Till is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Chinonye Chukwu and written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chukwu, and produced by Beauchamp, Reilly, and Whoopi Goldberg. It is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in 1955. Mamie Till becomes one of the leading educators and activists in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son, Emmett, is kidnapped by two men who left with Till after a person in a waiting car with a “lighter voice than a man’s” identified him as that boy. The movie portrays that the person in the car was Carolyn Bryant, though this was never proven. Emmett was beaten, shot dead, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75lb cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire by white supremacists in 1955 for whistling at Bryant, while visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi. Mamie remarkably insisted that the casket containing her son's brutalized body be left open to show the world what they had done to him. One of the films writer and producer Keith Beauchamp will join us for a conversation on the how he and others brought the film to the big screen and the work being done to reopen the case.

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