“I am producing The Emmett Till Story and am starring as Mamie Till,” Henson said. “John Singleton is going to direct it. We don’t have a start date yet but… the deal has been done. That’s one [project] that I’ve been passionate about since Trayvon Martin was murdered.”

Henson’s production company, TPH Productions, will oversee the project, which aims to tell the story of the Black teen who was brutally beaten, shot in the head, and tossed in a river in Money, MS. Till was accused of flirting with 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham, a White woman, in the summer of 1955. The 14-year-old was tortured by Donham’s husband and brother, who gorged out his eye among other atrocities. His bloated and mangled body was found three days later.

Till’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted that her son’s body be sent back home to Chicago, where she had an open-casket funeral for her son. His photo was published in JET magazine and quickly got attention from mainstream media. She wanted justice for son.

But in spite of the attention the case garnered, Till’s murderers were acquitted, by an all-White jury, just one month after they murdered him. The murderers faced no other charges– not even kidnapping. And in January 2017, the news broke that Donham had fabricated the part of the story about Till’s alleged sexual advances. Emmett Till had died because of a lie rooted in racial hatred.

Hollywood has taken a particular interest in the life and death of Emmett Till, as evidence by two other projects that have already underway. Vanity Fair reported that Jay Z and Will Smith have teamed up to do a six-episode series for HBO, while Whoopi Goldberg will co-produce and direct a movie project of her own.

As we await Taraji’s new production for the Emmett Till story, be on the lookout for her upcoming drama film, Proud Mary, in theaters on January 12th.

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In doing so, Oprah couldn’t help but bring up the thousands of Black people who have been unjustly slaughtered by police officers, even comparing them to Emmett Till’s 1955 murder- the 14 year old who was brutally beaten and shot in the head by two White men because he allegedly flirted with a White female cashier in Money, Mississipi.

The two men went to trial for Till’s murder and were found NOT GUILT OF ALL charges by the all-White male jury. So yeah, it’s clear to see why Oprah is comparing the thousands of Black people unjustly murdered by some trigger-happy police who have NO ramifications for their murderous actions, to that of Emmett Till.

Oprah Winfrey: “THERE’S A NEW EMMITT TILL EVERYDAY”

See what Oprah said below:

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