Tag: “Till”

Woman Whose Claim Caused Emmett Till Murder Has Died

JACKSON, Miss.—The woman who accused teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955—causing his lynching—has died at 88. Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office. Her death marks the last chance for…


Film Review: ‘Till’: A Moving History Lesson Gets Torpedoed by Technical Overreach

PG-13 | 2h 10min | Drama, Crime, Biography, History | 21 October 2022 (USA) There have been many poems, plays, songs (including the 1962 “The Death of Emmett Till” by Bob Dylan), short films, TV episodes, and three documentaries (“The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” by Keith Beauchamp from 2005 being the best of the lot) detailing the 1955 murder of…