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 ...
Atlanta —– A recently discovered early script version of the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” showed a much harsher depiction of slavery than what ultimately made it onscreen. Historian David Vincent ...
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 ...
Revolutionary America was a place of extraordinary paradox. America's Founding Fathers were men yearning for a nation of individual liberty and unprecedented independence. Thomas Jefferson expressed ...