BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - Slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" and 1970s con-artist caper "American Hustle" led the Golden Globe Awards nominations announced on Thursday with seven nods each, ...
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 ...
John Amos with Esther Rolle in Good Times, the first US sitcom centred on a black, two-parent family - Shutterstock John Amos, who has died aged 84, was a versatile stage and screen actor revered for ...
“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 ...
With nine Oscar nominations, "12 Years a Slave" is looking to top a fruitful awards season with the much coveted Best Picture award next month. "12 Years a Slave" tells the story of Solomon Northup, a ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I’ve always avoided making films about slavery. In the early part of my career… I didn’t want to ...
When director Kasi Lemmons started work on the first major movie about Harriet Tubman, the 19th century slave turned hero of the Underground Railway, she decided to focus less on the brutality of ...
Atlanta —– A recently discovered early script version of the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” showed a much harsher depiction of slavery than what ultimately made it onscreen. Historian David Vincent ...