Picture 1994: “This is a great script. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,” said the then-president of a studio sublabel. Fortunately, there was a single black person in that studio ...

Instead of that soul-crushing feeling I often experience after seeing a “Black struggle film,” Harriet sent me out of the theater feeling empowered. Early reviews of the film were tepid, describing it ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is in talks to acquire Power to the People, a package that has George Tillman Jr committed to direct a period drama about the formation of the Black Panthers. Script is by Gregory ...

Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman? It may sound strange and offensive, but the film’s screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, said that was suggested when the movie was first being shopped ...

What did you learn about Harriet Tubman in school? That she ran away from slavery, then risked her own freedom to free others? One sentence, two, if that? A new film, "Harriet," starring Cynthia Erivo ...