Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix‘s forthcoming project, African Queens: Queen Cleopatra, has caused a stir among Egyptian experts for depicting her as ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...

In response to Netflix casting a mixed race actress to play Cleopatra in a new series, a government-owned Egyptian media station says it will produce a documentary depicting the queen with an actress ...

The movie, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring biracial British actor Adele James as Queen Cleopatra, is set for release on May 10. It is the second part of a Netflix "docuseries" on African ...

The director has also spoken out in defense of the show’s casting of a Black woman as the iconic queen. In response to Netflix’s upcoming docudrama African Queens, which sees a Black woman in the role ...

When it comes to Cleopatra, the enigmatic ruler whose political savvy — and romantic entanglements — have made her an endless source of fascination, Hollywood has never gotten it right. Elizabeth ...

Was Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra Black? That’s the hotly debated question surrounding Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra,” a drama-documentary series about the pharaonic ruler narrated and executive produced by ...

Responding to Netflix casting a Black woman as Cleopatra, a government-owned Egyptian media outlet is making a documentary that will depict the queen with an actress whose features and coloring are ...

Debates over the race of Netflix’s "Queen Cleopatra" series miss the point of her cultural impact, according to a guest essay from the New York Times. Dr. Gwen Nally and Dr. Mary Hamil Gilbert, both ...

Dr. Nally is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Dr. Gilbert is an assistant professor of classics at Mississippi State University. The new Netflix ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...

Jada Pinkett Smith is defending her decision to cast a biracial actress as Cleopatra in her new Netflix series, African Queens Reading time 3 minutes Egyptian Queen Cleopatra has captivated the ...