Will Smith and Jay Z are producing an HBO miniseries about Emmett Till

Will Smith and Jay Z are teaming up again. The pair, along with Jay Brown, James Lassiter, and Aaron Kaplan are executive producing an untitled miniseries about Emmett Till for HBO.

Till was a 14-year-old African-American teen in Chicago who was brutally murdered in 1955 while visiting family in Mississippi. His family chose to have an open-casket funeral to show the savage effects on Till. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted of killing Till, later publicly admitting culpability after their trial.

PBS produced a 2003 documentary called The Murder of Emmett Till that investigated the whole situation.

Smith and Jay Z each have producer credits on last year’s Annie, starring Jamie Foxx. Jay Z’s concert film with wife Beyoncé aired on HBO last September.