Whoopi Goldberg and the Till cast on telling the story of Emmett and Mamie Till

Whoopi Goldberg still remembers the first time she heard the name Emmett The Oscarwinning actress was born in November 1955, only three months after the 14yearold Chicago teenager was brutally murdered by two white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi, where he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Till s mother, Mamie TillMobley, made the decision to show the evidence of their actions to the world, holding an opencasket funeral where everyone in the room and, eventually, around the country had to come facetoface with what a hate crime looks like. We had averted our eyes for far too long, turning away from the ugly reality facing us as a nation, TillMobley famously said. Let the world see what Ive The story of Till s murder and TillMobley s attempts to hold his killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, accountable is told anew in Till, a new drama from acclaimed filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu. Goldberg produced and plays a supporti