Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

In an auteur-heavy but Hollywood-light edition of Cannes Film Festival this year, one of the movies I was most looking forward to was Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first feature film in ...

European powers brought enslaved Africans to the Americas because plantation economies demanded massive amounts of labor to produce profitable crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Indigenous ...

Riley Keough wore a sheer Chanel Haute Couture look on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet Thursday evening. Getty Images Just call it sheer audacity. Riley Keough came dangerously close to breaking ...

The 79th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Monday, with a strict dress code that bans nudity, gowns with long trains and sneakers from the red carpet. Getty Images The bare-skin ban is back on the ...

Like last year, one popular red carpet trend has been banned 'for decency reasons' JB Lacroix/FilmMagic; Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Cannes Film Festival enforces a strict dress code, ...

Three of the last four years, the Moroccan entry in the Oscars international race has been directed by a woman and has had a female protagonist — and for the last two years, that woman has found or ...

Peddi USA Box Office Advance Sales (26 Days To Go): Ram Charan Brings The Fastest Indian Film To Hit $100K Pre-Sales! (Photo Credit: Instagram) Written and directed by Buchi Babu Sana, Peddi stars Ram ...

Directed by two young filmmakers, the documentary reveals how slogans such as “food security” and “energy transition” mask colonial exploitation, against which local indigenous communities have ...