![]() Parker was acquitted, but the details of the case caused many people to believe he was guilty of rape and called for a nationwide boycott of the filmĬatch Sowande' Mustakeem speak at the Faculty Book Celebration! I went well informed of the allegation that Parker and his co-writer Jean Celestin had been accused of sexually assaulting a classmate in 1999. I viewed the film five days after its nationwide release in October 2016. And, in late 2015 through mid summer 2016, many others shared the sentiment. Moving promotional trailers, a haunting soundtrack and the story of young filmmaker Nate Parker’s quest to tell Nat Turner’s iconic story had me fully excited. However, controversy soon overshadowed the film, and now in awards season, it has been shut out of the major competitions. Early in the film’s publicity campaign, many people were sure that it would receive many awards, including Oscar nominations. Raised in the shadow of this history, I was fully attentive to the legacies of slavery in the lead-up to actor-director Nate Parker’s 2016 film of the same name. ![]() ![]() Many decades later, when my mother enrolled me in third grade, they were still burning crosses in Stone Mountain. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, a film that sparked a rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. ![]() I was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a city brought to prominence by the 1915 release of D.W. Assistant Professor of History and African and African-American Studies ![]()
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