Movie Review | 'Banished': When Jim Crow Came to Town, With Eviction Notices
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There are ghosts haunting âBanished,â about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.
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DVD copies of the movie âRambo,â starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, below, are much in demand in Myanmar but very had to find, Agence France-Presse reported. That is because the police there have banned the film, in which Mr. Stallone portrays a Vietnam War veteran battling soldiers of the military junta that rules the country. âPolice have warned me I could go to jail for up to seven years if I sell the latest Rambo film,â said a DVD vendor who declined to be identified. Another seller said that at least 20 customers asked for it every day. One democracy advocate, who declined to say how he obtained a copy, said, âI watched the movie at home with my family and gave it to my friends because I wanted them to see it.â.
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U.S. Marshals delivering an eviction notice Wednesday found the decomposing bodies of four youths, ranging in age from 5 to 18, inside a home in one of this city's poorest areas, authorities said
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What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kaganâs inert yet strangely compelling film âGoldaâs Balcony.â
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Racial hatred, violence and suicide are among concerns for movie viewers questioned about film classification.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--DURHAM -- Someone sprayed "KKK" and other racial slurs at an apartment complex Wednesday. The messages appeared to be directed at the management, police said.
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Resistance to the Southâs elaborate system of racial segregation long predated the onset of traditionally celebrated civil-rights initiatives in 1954-55.
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U.S. Marshals delivering an eviction notice Wednesday found the decomposing bodies of four youths, ranging in age from 5 to 18, inside a home in one of this city's poorest areas, authorities said.
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In honor of Black History Month, TIME critic Richard Corliss reflects on 25 defining works over nearly a century of cinema that broke down the walls of intolerance on the big screen
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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Conrad Blackâs rise and fall was marked by charm, indignation and opportunism.
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorities...
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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Howard Barkerâs 1981 political drama about a dissident cartoonist provides more questions than answers about the challenges facing truly free speech.
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There is a newfound willingness to confront the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames driven by race-tinged rage that disemboweled the cityâs midsection in 1967.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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Racial slurs should be banned from television and film, US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says.