(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 ...

Will Smith said that in wanting to “feel the degradation of slavery” he went “too far” in filming the Apple TV+ slavery film, Emancipation. While appearing on a new episode of Kevin Hart’s Peacock ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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” – ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up At last night’s Golden Globes, it would be Steve McQueen’s ...

It’s Black History Month, and the Museum of the Moving Image is looking at the “peculiar institution” of slavery as depicted in film and television. This Saturday, the venerable Astoria venue hosts a ...

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 ...