Birth of a Nation

Actor and director Nate Parker is back directing a new digital series called Baseline. Atlanta Black Star reports, after having his directorial début of his film Birth Of A Nation crushed by rape allegations back in 2016, Parker is back writing and directing. Baseline is about a family living in inner city Los Angeles that’s fighting to protect their aspiring […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was another sunny day Thursday for Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” and Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age tale “Moonlight” on the long journey to the Oscars. After winning the top film awards at the Golden Globes, Chazelle and Jenkins both scored their first nomination for a Directors Guild Award, […]

A female student trainer claims the incident occurred in 2000 while Nate Parker was awaiting trial on a rape allegation.

To say that things got heated on set of Roland Martin‘s News One Now is a complete understatement. By no surprise, Birth Of A Nation has rattled many black women, some using feminism as the reason why they wouldn’t support the film. The Nat Turner story opened to a disappointing $7M, and many people celebrated […]

10/12/16- Roland Martin talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the opening weekend numbers of Nate Parker‘s Birth Of A Nation. “We do not operate by mainstream media by what they say is a flop or not. The fact that it got made is a success. How is it that we can say after […]

Birth Of A Nation is easily one of the country’s most anticipated films of the year. Nation tells the story of slave and preacher, Nat Turner (Nate Parker), who uses his preaching to calm unruly slaves. One he notices the atrocities against himself and his fellow slaves, Nat orchestrates an uprising in hopes of leading them to freedom. […]

CBS has released a clip from Nate Parker’s 60 Minutes interview, airing this Sunday. “I don’t feel guilty,” he told Anderson Cooper in his first television interview about the 1999 rape case that resurfaced this summer just as buzz surrounding his film The Birth of a Nation was reaching its peak. Parker also said, according to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Searchlight will hold voter registration enrollment in theater lobbies ahead of screenings of the Nat Turner slave rebellion drama “The Birth of a Nation.” Though the film has been overshadowed by a 17-year-old rape case involving Nate Parker, the film’s director and star, Fox Searchlight is trying to shift the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Searchlight will hold voter registration enrollment in theater lobbies ahead of screenings of the Nat Turner slave rebellion drama “The Birth of a Nation.” Though the film has been overshadowed by a 17-year-old rape case involving Nate Parker, the film’s director and star, Fox Searchlight is trying to shift the […]

While Director Nate Parker has spent the publicity campaign for his film “The Birth of a Nation,” either answering or dodging questions about the 17-year-old rape case in which he was acquitted, his leading lady Gabrielle Union has become the face of the slave drama, and she’s trying to re-engage the audience that might be […]

TORONTO (AP) — In a carefully stage-managed press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, Nate Parker and the cast of his Nat Turner slave revolt drama “The Birth of a Nation” argued for focusing on their film and not on the years-old rape allegation against Parker that has enveloped the film in a scandal […]

The controversy surrounding “The Birth of a Nation” star and director Nate Parker continues to escalate. Now, actress Gabrielle Union has written an op-ad piece for the Los Angeles Times about the subject.   Union who was raped in real life plays the role of an unnamed slave in the film who is sexually assaulted […]