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 ...

Important movies like 'Harriet' are vital to correct the misperceptions many have about the shameful practice but "risk defining African American participation in U.S. history primarily as victims," ...

Philadelphia – — Monica Mingo had sworn off watching slave movies after seeing the Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave”: The horrifying depictions of black people being beaten, raped, and dehumanized ...

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 ...

Some people are complaining that Hollywood is producing too many movies about American slavery. But that’s not the problem. There can never be too many movies that depict the horrors of an American ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Monica Mingo had sworn off watching slave movies after seeing the Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave”: The horrifying depictions of black people being beaten, raped, and dehumanized ...

Will Smith next stars in Emancipation as Peter, the real-life runaway slave known for the picture of his heavily-scarred back Will Smith avoided tackling slavery in his body of work for a very ...

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 ...

Forever looking to our past, even all the way back to 1977, the History Channel has begun developing a new version of Roots, the acclaimed miniseries based on Alex Haley’s epic tale of American ...

In my post about PizzaGate earlier today, I mentioned the "white slavery" scare of the Progressive Era, when wild stories circulated of vast conspiracies coercing young women into prostitution. Forced ...