With slave heads mounted on sticks, bodies hanging from trees and death from labor exhaustion, Will Smith's "Emancipation" accurately depicts the violence used to maintain racial hierarchy in ...

12 Years a Slave is a powerful historical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free African American man who was abducted and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War United States.

“REVOLT Black News Weekly” aired on Friday (Dec. 9) to discuss who should be held accountable for the use of Black inmates as science experiments at a Philadelphia prison, WNBA player Brittney ...

Steve McQueen, the legendary British director, believes that 12 Years a Slave fundamentally changed Hollywood for Black filmmakers. Based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, Chiwetel Ejiofor ...

"What do you think this documentary is about?" HBO has revealed the official trailer for a documentary film titled Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., from the acclaimed playwright Jeremy O. Harris. As ...

Film buffs are sure to give a damn about this revelatory piece of movie memorabilia. An unearthed shooting script for “Gone With The Wind” has exposed how a “war” over the depiction of slavery rocked ...

The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve. By Annie Aguiar Jeremy O. Harris’s new documentary — titled “Slave Play. Not A ...

Now, ahead of the release of Smith’s new film “Emancipation,” director Antoine Fuqua is opening up about all that speculation, and his wish that audiences will instead focus on the searing narrative ...

Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into ...

(Reuters) - The American Film Institute has called off a Los Angeles screening of slavery movie "The Birth of a Nation" amid controversy over an old rape case involving the film's director just as ...