Slavery is one of the most tragic realities of human history. It has led to conflicts, trauma, generational inequality, and ...
Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, may feature several signifiers of an ultramodern slave narrative mixed with spaghetti Western bravado — bloody gunfights; n-word-spouting plantation ...
Nearly 30 students sat watching clips depicting the kidnapping that occuring during the slave trade, while narrators in the movies spoke of “slaves packed like sardines” in ships and how “new men ...
The truth behind the myths America still protects.
LONDON (Reuters) - A new film about the British abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago has been criticized for "writing blacks out of history," but its director said he deliberately focused on one ...
EXCLUSIVE: French screenwriter and director Simon Moutaïrou spent summers as a teenager in his father’s native country of Benin in West Africa. Etched on his memory from this time are the trips to its ...
A powerful African historical epic, ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons,’ is poised to make its global cinema debut on July 25, in what promises to be a landmark moment for African storytelling on the world ...
Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...
S. Pearl Sharp laughs before the questioner even finishes: What about African-Americans who've gotten the good education, good job and have no connection to slavery and . . . "That famous phrase, 'Why ...