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 ...

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 ...

Arriving in the heart of Hollywood’s awards season, “Emancipation” would seem poised to be a major player. Then you watch it. Helmed by “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, ...

Revolutionary America was a place of extraordinary paradox. America's Founding Fathers were men yearning for a nation of individual liberty and unprecedented independence. Thomas Jefferson expressed ...

"The Slap" forced Antoine Fuqua's film into the Oscar spotlight, but this violent slavery thriller wasn't built for the burden of such expectations. An over-inflated B movie with little gold delusions ...