The 85-minute film, which tells the true story of the first public discussions of slavery's abolition in 1834 at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, is close to selling out, and if it does, a second ...
PANGEA's fledgling Modern Day Slavery Committee kicked off an awareness campaign about global slavery yesterday with a screening of two documentaries in Sophia Gordon Hall. "We're a new committee, so ...
Years a Slave is one of the most touching and critical films of our time. We tell you the true story behind the blockbuster ...
A PBS documentary about Hagerstown’s historic Jonathan Street community, once known as Maryland’s “Black Wall Street,” has ...
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 Black History Month, and the Museum of the Moving Image is looking at the “peculiar institution” of slavery as depicted in film and television. This Saturday, the venerable Astoria venue hosts a ...
“Eden” is the name of a harrowing new movie about sex trafficking. It opens in theatres on Friday, a year after winning awards at the Seattle International Film Festival. “Eden” is a powerful and ...
“Emancipation” film producer Joey McFarland sparked outrage across social media after he walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere last week with an image of the real-life slave that the film ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - "12 Years a Slave," the true story of a free black man sold into slavery in 1840s Louisiana, won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. The film, by ...
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A film about a boy trafficked to work in a carpet factory is to be screened in remote Indian villages to raise awareness about child slavery among families often ...
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 ...