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“We are each other’s business at the end of the day”; “TILL” comes out today and we spoke to director Chinonye Chukwu about it

Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall and Jamie Renell
Directed by Chinonye Chukwu

On March 29th, after passing overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act—sixty-seven years after the Black teenager was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 by two white men angry over Till’s supposed whistling at one of their wives. He was just fourteen at the time of his murder. An all-White Mississippi jury exonerated ... more >