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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities

Even before controversial director Nate Parker debuted his Nat Turner movie, The Birth of a Nation, black voices emanated from Black

In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains