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TILL

TILL

When you want to look away, but mustn't. You can't ignore it. It's your history too. It's your future.

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Marjorie H Morgan
Sep 10, 2023
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Till (2022), directed by Chinonye Chukwu, opens with a happy driving scene of a mother and her young teenage child, smiling and singing together in August 1955. Emmett Till was known to sing and sometimes whistle to alleviate his stuttering on certain words.

Even this one minute introductory scene is hard to watch because the true story of Emmett Till is…

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