Jay Z & Will Smith Team Up for Emmett Till Miniseries

Just a couple of days before what would have been Emmett Till's 74th birthday, Deadline reports that Will Smith and Jay Z have an HBO Miniseries about his fate in the works.

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy who was tortured and murdered for allegedly speaking to a white woman in 1955 in Mississippi. While his murderers would later admit to his killing, it was acquitted and would later have a part in igniting the Civil Rights Movement.

Jay Z, Will Smith, Roc Nation's Jay Brown, James Lassiter of Overbook Entertainment and Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment are executive producing the 6 episode, untitled miniseries. There are still no writers or actors involved on the series yet, as of now the idea is in active development with no premiere date.

Will Smith and Jay Z have previously worked as co-producers to remake 2014'sAnnie and paired up for Fela! the Broadway show inspired by Fela Kuti. Jay Z also executive produced the soundtrack to 2012's Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a documentary about civil rights activist Angela Davis.

Considering the climate of race relations in America at the moment, do you think it's necessary for these high profile Black entertainers to shed light on Emmett Till's tragic fate?

Source: Deadline | RS Photo Credit: Splash News