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 ...

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's a sad form of new colonialism," says auteur Laïla Marrakchi about the social and #MeToo issues she explores in her Un Certain Regard film. "I want to show these women who are often not visible." ...

As critics tussle over what Django Unchained and Lincoln say about black people’s history in America, Colorlines contributor Dexter Gabriel writes that the depictions are more a reflection of how ...

Steve McQueen has suggested that Hollywood has been guilty of ignoring slavery. The British filmmaker, whose new drama 12 Years a Slave centres on a free man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who's kidnapped and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The New York Times took stock of the past 25 years in films and compiled a list of the 100 best movies released so far in the 21st century. Among the movies selected by 500 people involved in the film ...

Artist George Fuller created this painting in 1857, after witnessing a young Black girl being sold at auction in Augusta, GA, during his tour of the South. He never knew her name, and no historical ...

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 ...