Nyong'o looked back on the time following her Oscar-winning feature film debut and how she navigated avoiding "perpetuating ...

Lupita Nyong’o has revealed that she was inundated with offers to play a slave after winning an Oscar. Lupita, 42, was a ...

(The Root) — Not many films keep me thinking for days on end. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, about a slave-turned-bounty hunter in the antebellum South, accomplished this and then some. As a ...

The winner of 2014’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award said the achievement did not improve her career prospects. Lupita ...

Lupita Nyong'o recalls the frustrating offers that came after her 2014 Oscar win for '12 Years a Slave': 'We’d like you to do ...

PANGEA's fledgling Modern Day Slavery Committee kicked off an awareness campaign about global slavery yesterday with a screening of two documentaries in Sophia Gordon Hall. "We're a new committee, so ...

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 ...

Someone else echoed, “I mean, honestly, we have enough slave movies, we don’t need any more. The atrocities of slavery are ...

12 Years A Slave, the new film staring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender, premiered at TIFF Friday night, eliciting an incredible response from audiences and critics alike. In fact, ...

It seems to be a coincidence, no more, that the two extraordinary 2013 films that are truly primal moments in American movies – J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost” and Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” – ...

Brad Pitt is more than passionate about his new movie, "12 Years a Slave," which opens Friday — he knows it will have a real impact on viewers. Pitt plays a Canadian carpenter in the film, which tells ...

The 85-minute film, which tells the true story of the first public discussions of slavery's abolition in 1834 at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, is close to selling out, and if it does, a second ...