Whoopi Goldberg and the ’Till’ cast on telling the story of Emmett and Mamie Till

Whoopi Goldberg still remembers the first time she heard the name “Emmett Till.“ The Oscar-winning actress was born in November 1955, only three months after the 14-year-old Chicago teenager was brutally murdered by two white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi, where he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the decision to show the evidence of their actions to the world, holding an open-casket funeral where everyone in the room — and, eventually, around the country — had to come face-to-face with what a hate crime looks like. “We had averted our eyes for far too long, turning away from the ugly reality facing us as a nation,“ Till-Mobley famously said. “Let the world see what I’ve seen.“ The story of Till’s murder and Till-Mobley’s attempts to hold his killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, accountable is told anew in Till, a new drama from acclaimed filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu. Goldberg produced and plays a supporti