Jeremy O. Harris is directing new actors through his production “Slave Play” and sharing it in a playful, provocative documentary. Watch “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” on Thursday, June 20, at 9 p ...

NEW YORK — Even before “Slave Play” burst onto Broadway in 2019, producers and studios were already urging Jeremy O. Harris to adapt his play into a film or a TV show. “My first thought,” the ...

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 ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, which successfully led to the first national Juneteenth observance in 2021, brought a new wave of attention to the history behind this celebration. A ...

After the Mexican American War, California entered the Union in 1850 as a so-called free state. Its constitution read, “Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for punishment of crimes, ...