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 ...

Critic Tim Cogshell agrees with Snoop Dogg. We don't need any new slavery movies. But there are a few old ones you should see before you close the book on the genre. Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC ...

*Will Smith‘s rep has responded to reports that he gave singer August Alsina a “blessing” to have an affair with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. “I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation. Due ...

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 ...

Joe Alblas / BET Editor's note: Culture critic Chris Vognar recently completed a Southern Methodist University graduate course on the American Revolution. As part of the course, he wrote about how the ...

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 ...

Slavery defined our nation's past and still affects its present. Many Americans don't realize that, experts say. We want to help you learn the real truth about slavery. So we asked African-American ...

Those who have grown weary of movies that treat America’s history of slavery so seriously can now look forward to The Good Lord Bird, an adaptation of James McBride’s novel—which has drawn favorable ...

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 ...