Arriving in the heart of Hollywood’s awards season, “Emancipation” would seem poised to be a major player. Then you watch it. Helmed by “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, ...

The story that unfolds in Emancipation is that of a real-life escaped enslaved man, Gordon. The film is based on a historical photo taken of Gordon (known historically as “Whipped Peter”) in 1863, ...

Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies (CSSL), which researches the history of enslavement, celebrated the history of emancipation from enslavement in Washington, D.C ...

Faithfully recreating the music of slave organizers, freedom fighters, and abolitionists, a recent compilation sheds light on the politics of collective liberation at the root of 19th-century American ...

Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Emancipation Day marked the end of slavery in Florida, which happened before Juneteenth in Texas. This is how Emancipation Day has become a part of Florida culture. Click here for ...

“Emancipation” producer Joey McFarland has been criticized for collecting and subsequently publicizing an original photography collection of enslaved people. McFarland brought the famed 1863 photo of ...

Canada is celebrating Emancipation Day, the anniversary of the Aug. 1, 1833, Slavery Abolition Act, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire in 1834. Though informally celebrated for ...

Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Mustafa Shakir, and Timothy Hutton also star in the Apple Original film. Smith collaborates with “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua for the Apple Original film ...

Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard, shown here with a grandson, has long pushed for the nationwide designation of Emancipation Day “because it means Canada is finally recognizing and owning its full history.” ...

Producer Joey McFarland caught reporters off guard when he pulled out a photo of a whipped slave named Peter, from 1863, on the red carpet. Will Smith’s slavery drama “Emancipation” held its red ...