Martin Luther King Jr.

Lee Daniels and Hugh Jackman plan on combining forces to create Orders to Kill, a film telling an alternative story of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]

The stately Harry Belafonte is a historical force as well as a creative one. Having sung, danced and acted his way into the history book and the hearts and minds of music and movie lovers over the course of a six-decade career, the towering 85-year-old also marched, picketed and debated his way to changing the [...]

Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you look back at a unique situation is to assess its true impact. It is possible to mould the evidence to fit in with whatever narrative you ultimately choose. Such is the case with the L.A. Riots of 1992: you either believe it was a turning point in [...]