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 ...

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 ...

Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into ...

The opening title sequence in the movie Emancipation, now streaming on Apple TV+ after a brief theatrical release, tells us that the film is based on a true story. That is, in part, the case. Inspired ...

Twenty-five influential films have been added to the National Film Registry, the Library of Congress announced Friday, including “Terminator 2,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” ...

Public support for the Civil War in the North was at a nadir in 1863 when the abolitionist magazine Harper’s Weekly published in a special July 4 edition an engraving of a photograph of an escaped ...