“12 Years a Slave” opens nationwide this weekend, which means it will be going up against Disney’s Marvel superhero sequel “Thor: The Dark World” – a likely blockbuster. The powerful slavery drama, a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Roots 101's latest artifact was tucked away in a barn loft in Shelby County, near Louisville, for more than a century. Lamont Collins, the founder of the Roots 101 African American ...

Henry Box Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849. Undermain Theatre s production of Box imagines an alternative ending to Brown s life after his escape from slavery. Paul ...

Much buzzed-about Oscar front-runner “12 Years a Slave” is off to a fast start at the box office. Director Steve McQueen’s brutally powerful slavery drama brought in $960,000 from 19 theaters in its ...

Like fallen leaves and football, Fox Searchlight rolling out an Oscar contender is a fall tradition, and this year it’s the awards front-runner “12 Years a Slave,” which debuts Friday in 19 theaters.

Fresh from its Oscar win, 12 Years a Slave can still be seen in a theater near you. Fox Searchlight will be playing the movie in more than 1,000 theaters the weekend of March 7 in hopes of snagging ...

If you want to know how well “12 Years a Slave” is playing to its two distinct audiences -- highbrow art house patrons and mainstream African Americans -- you need look no further than two very ...