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March 27, 2013
Adele, Louis C.K. and others make our list of black allies -- and wannabes with questionable motives.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 26, 2013
The director tells our editor-in-chief about the idea for his next "resistance" film.
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by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar onFebruary 25, 2013
At Esquire, retired NBA star-turned-writer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes that while Quentin Tarantino's Django was great, it's not worthy of an Oscar nod.
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by Aisha I. Jefferson onFebruary 22, 2013
Black Academy Awards Series: Precious filmmaker gets real on Django, Oscar nods and his fellow director.
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by Lawrence D. Bobo onJanuary 9, 2013
Straight Up: 'Django Unchained' trashes the soft-pedaled depiction that American cinema has embraced.
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by Salamishah Tillet onDecember 31, 2012
CNN contributor Salamishah Tillet writes that what makes Tarantino's lead character special also makes him problematic, if he's used as a stand-in for all African Americans.
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by Tanya Steele onDecember 29, 2012
Tanya Steele writes at Shadow and Act that she watched Lincoln and Django Unchained in succession to get a better view of slavery as filtered through the imaginations of privileged white men.
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December 26, 2012
Hear The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., chat with the Django Unchained director about the n-word and a possible sequel.
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by Hillary Crosley onDecember 25, 2012
Quentin Tarantino's brutal film may center on a superhero slave, but any deeper meaning is arguable.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 25, 2012
In the last of a Q&A series, the director rejects the idea that Django fits into that old Hollywood trope.
