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 ...

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 ...

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 13th Annual Africana Film Festival brought students and faculty to ten Hoor Hall on Saturday to showcase a series of ...

On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston found out they were free. The discovery was nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. But what if the U.S. government ...

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 ...

Twelve films with an African connection were featured in this year’s festival, including stories of Africans from Kenya, Egypt, Eritrea, Cameroon, Sudan, and Angola. Whether immigrating to Europe, ...

“Emancipation” film producer Joey McFarland sparked outrage across social media after he walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere last week with an image of the real-life slave that the film ...

It’s been a busy week for famed historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the foremost scholars on black history and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard ...