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Movie review: 'Till' a powerful portrait of a mother who turned loss into meaningful action

The tragic story of Emmett Till is one of a face. The face of a 14-year-old boy, beaten and murdered in Mississippi, a battered and bloated face that his mother insisted be seen by the world. Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till” is a story of two faces: Emmett’s and that of his…

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The film ‘Till’ focuses its gaze on the steely, grieving mother

Two white men were on trial in September 1955 for murdering Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teen who allegedly offended a white woman at a grocery store in rural Mississippi.

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Whoopi Goldberg slams ‘Till’ film critic over ‘fat suit’ remarks

NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg has called out a film critic who targeted the Oscar winner for the way she looks onscreen in Chinonye Chukwu’s film, “Till,” which premiered Saturday at the New York Film Festival.

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Whoopi Goldberg slams critic who said she wore fat suit in Till as she says 'that was me'

Hollywood actress Whoopi Goldberg, 66, has addressed 'demeaning' claims she wore a fat suit to make her body look bigger in the upcoming Emmett Till biopic

Daily Mirror

Whoopi Goldberg hits out at ‘demeaning’ critic who falsely assumed she was wearing a fat suit in new movie

‘It’s ok not to be a fan of a movie, but you want to leave people’s looks out,’ actor suggested

The Independent UK

Till review – sensitive Emmett Till drama aims to educate and honor

A remarkable performance from Danielle Deadwyler anchors an at times morally questionable pursuit: to retell a devastating story of Black pain

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The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guide

A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award.

ABC News

LZ Granderson: The accusations against Brett Favre are not just another NFL scandal

Nearly every member of my family has ties to Mississippi. During school breaks, we would load up the Aerostar and head out from Detroit, down I-75 south to our grandparents' home in Cruger, a small town nestled somewhere between where Emmett Till's body was found and where Medgar Evers was…

Los Angeles Times

New York Film Festival fetes 60 years with eye to the future

Like a pair of moviegoers huddled in debate outside a movie theater, the past and future of film converge in conversation at the New York Film Festival, which on Friday launches its 60th edition with the premiere of Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation, “White Noise.”

The Independent UK

Mississippi prosecutor who worked on reopened Emmett Till case dies aged 67

Joyce Chiles presented evidence in the Emmet Till case to a grand jury in 2007

The Independent UK

BFI London Film Festival 2022: When is it, how to get tickets, and what is showing?

Tickets cost from £5 for the annual film festival

Evening Standard

Prosecutor who worked on 1 renewal of Emmett Till case dies

A Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955 killing of Black teenager Emmett Till has died

The Independent UK

Chicago’s sewage district fails to warn gardeners free sludge contains toxic forever chemicals

CHICAGO — Bags of the earthy muck are labeled organic or natural. Sometimes it is billed as exceptional quality compost. Industry held a nationwide contest years ago and decided to call it biosolids, a euphemism that beat out black gold, geoslime and humanure.

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‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist

From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between

Chicago Tribune

67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall Movie Preview 2022: Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Dwayne Johnson, Julia Roberts in films we can’t wait to see

The season’s most promising titles have us asking: How could that have happened? Who did the crime? And do we need another ‘Pinocchio’?

Chicago Tribune

Top movies for fall 2022, including the much awaited ‘Wakanda Forever’

Right now there’s enough debt, toil and trouble afoot to upend the film and streaming industries twice over. Cineworld, owner of the nation’s number two multiplex chain Regal, flirts with bankruptcy amid its nearly $5 billion debt load. Warner Bros. Discovery has taken to cutting its perceived staff and programming…

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Evening Standard

What to see at the 66th BFI London Film Festival - our pick of the newly announced programme

It’s back and we couldn’t be more excited

The Guardian - UK

The Trees by Percival Everett review – potent satire of US racism

This Booker-longlisted investigation of gruesome murders in Mississippi addresses a deep political issue through page-turning comic horror

Tribune News Service

Black leaders in Maryland launch 'Emmett Till' hate crime alert system to curb race-related incidents

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Anne Arundel Caucus of African American leaders have launched a statewide notification system that alerts leaders and journalists when a racial incident, threat or suspected hate crime occurs in Maryland.

WEKU

A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.

The Independent UK

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing

Daily Mirror

White woman who triggered lynching of black child won't be charged 77 years on

Jurors heard more than seven hours of testimony after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was found last month - 77 years after Emmett Till's killing in the Mississippi Delta in the US

Evening Standard

Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to lynching won’t be charged

A white woman whose accusation against Emmett Till caused the black teenager to be lynched nearly 70 years ago will not be charged with kidnap or manslaughter, a grand jury found.

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