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 ...

The decision to show a movie about slavery and the Underground Railroad that uses an iteration of the N-word to junior high students has some Chandler parents concerned. A Chandler Unified School ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s just in the past 10 years that American movies have come to terms with slavery as an unalloyed evil. So it’s only now, after 100 years of feature films and a century and a half since the end of ...

Slavery defined our nation's past and still affects its present. Many Americans don't realize that, experts say. We want to help you learn the real truth about slavery. So we asked African-American ...

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 ...