The music mogul has signed a first-look deal with the Weinstein Company.
Whoopi Goldberg is set to produce a film about the life of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was murdered in 1955.
Jay Z and Will Smith are teaming up to produce a yet-untitled miniseries for HBO about Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death in 1955 kick-started the American Civil Rights Movement. 2015 marks 60 years since Emmett Till’s death, which came at the expense of flirting with a white woman in Money, Miss. Although […]
It was recently announced during the 2015 Cannes Film Festival that a biopic on the life of Emmett Till, the black Chicago teenager whose death in 1955 kick-started the American Civil Rights Movement, is in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Shatterglass Films and Chaz Ebert, the former wife of late Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, […]
The fallout behind Lil Wayne‘s controversial lyrics where he referenced the heinous death of Emmett Till continues. After Mountain Dew dropped him as their celebrity spokesperson, Weezy’s collaborator Future has come out in defense of the rapper. Future gave his opinion about the Lil Wayne lyric which appears on his song “Karate Chop (Remix)” on […]
A friend of mine once said, “Correctly applied heavy effort is greater than hard work.” The family of Emmett Till must have heard that saying before because just days after they said they would pressure Mountain Dew to drop Lil Wayne as a celebrity spokesperson for his insensitive rap lyric referencing Emmett Till, Weezy penned […]
We are all for freedom of expression, but when there is a lack of taste that is tied into it, we have to take a step back and really wonder, “Why?” Rapper Lil’ Wayne referenced Emmett Till in the Future song, “Karate Chop” where he says, “Beat that p-ssy up like Emmett Till.” MUST READ: […]
Kanye gave everyone a heads up on Twitter yesterday that he’d be stopping by Hot 97 in NYC to debut some new music.
