Dec. 9 (UPI) --The Women Film Critics Circle has voted director Kasi Lemmons' Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet as the Best Movie by a Woman in 2019. The film also earned the Karen Morley Award for best ...

Cynthia Erivo plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman with a mournful fury, but the rest of Kasi Lemmons' biopic is more dutiful than inspired. When you see photographs of Harriet Tubman (and many ...

Harriet Tubman’s contributions to racial progress and to the world as a whole cannot be overstated. A similar sentiment can be made when speaking about Kasi Lemmons’ contributions to film. So when you ...

HBO Max is out with its list of everything coming and going from the new streaming service, and the list includes the 2019 film “Harriet” starring Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman. The HBO Originals ...

It has taken us until 2019 to have a film about Araminta “Minty” Ross. Better known in history as Harriet Tubman. In Kasi Lemmons’ new film “Harriet,” the story breaks away from the typical slave ...

The women behind “Harriet” will receive the 2020 Stanley Kramer Award for Social Justice from the African-American Film Critics Association and family of the director. Star Cynthia Erivo, director ...

Black History Month is celebrated in February in the United States (and October in the United Kingdom). It is a special month ...

Hollywood has often shamelessly cast white people as people of color in major films, but the idea of casting Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman is almost too absurd to believe. However, Gregory Allen ...

Viola Davis has some thoughts about Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman. The Academy Award-winner spoke to MadameNoire about the news an executive reportedly suggested Roberts play the historical figure, ...

Lately I have been seeing films and theatrical works that are based on history and current events. Without spending hours reading reliable published works about various historical figures and their ...