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LeVar Burton Calls Bullsh*t on Quentin Tarantino
LeVar Burton has a genteel persona thanks to his iconic role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and his hosting...
LeVar Burton has a genteel persona thanks to his iconic role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and his hosting...
When Quentin Tarantino’s western revenge-fantasy Django Unchained was first announced, casting rumors pegged Will Smith as the titular slave-turned-vigilante. But Smith, who...
A fired, ex-employee returns to work and goes on a shooting rampage. Or, a politician receives a severed penguin head...
Quentin Tarantino’s controversial Django Unchained is hardly the first Western to feature an African-American lead. Westerns, roughly speaking, portray events...
In a crazy world of constant gun violence (see Chicagoan casualty Hadiya Pendleton) and ratchet rappers like Trinidad James, an...
As a newly minted Academy Award nominee (as one of nine producers on Django Unchained), Reginald Hudlin has once again...
Don Cheadle and crew return this week in the second-season premiere of House of Lies on Showtime. The show, which features Cheadle’s...
Sunday was a night that pitted two very different looks at the history of American slavery against one another for...
I finally saw Django Unchained. As a historian, I was reluctant to watch it. After all, to me the details...
Slavery-era action figures tied to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained are raising questions about whether they’re appropriate. A line of figures...