“Birth of a Nation,” the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave revolt, opened in theaters Friday. But films like “Birth of a Nation” don’t just open: They explode into the collective cultural consciousness ...

February is Black History Month and syracuse.com is planning on telling several forgotten stories of the Black experience from the Syracuse’s and Central New York’s past. If you know of one and want ...

Since many high school students across the country will be back to learning their history of the US from Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, it’s perhaps instructive to recall that when Birth of ...

After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man. The ...

While “The Birth of a Nation,” one of the most controversial films of the 20th century, was the talk of the town in 1916 in Rochester, at least one sober voice tried to connect movie-goers with ...

Bob Deans’ insightful perspective in the cover package “America at 400” brings some reality to our national self-esteem and makes us better for it [May 7]. If Deans were to author every American ...

At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7, 1916, and they were heralding the debut of D.W. Griffith’s film ...

Prologue: Jan 2, 1915 -- Part I. Fathers and sons -- The legacy -- Fathers and sons: the Trotters -- Fathers and sons: the Griffiths -- The awakening: 1896-1903 -- Character work: 1896-1907 -- Part II ...

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In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.