"Antebellum" directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz and star Janelle Monáe discuss creating a nontraditional slavery narrative.

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

There’s also something to be said for the ways that Antebellum’s broad, ironic arc — not from slavery to freedom, but rather the nightmarish reverse — owes a great deal to the specific ...

Coming on the heels of successful social thrillers like “Get Out” and “Us,” “Antebellum” (★★★ out of four; rated R; available Sept. 18 on streaming and video-on-demand platforms ...

MOVIE REVIEW “ANTEBELLUM” Rated R. On Amazon, VUDU, iTunes and more. Grade: C+ If I told you “Antebellum” combines elements of Academy Award winners “Get Out” and “12 Years a Slave ...

Sadistic Confederate soldiers chasing a Black slave with a rope around her neck is a terrifying sight in any movie, much less as the opening of a horror flick that threatens to get much worse ...

The antebellum Southern economy didn't have slavery as an unfortunate appendage--it was it's trunk, not a branch. We're not even talking about the damage done to the slaves themselves. We have ...

The country band Lady Antebellum announced on Thursday that it changed its name to Lady A. The decision, which the Grammy-winning group announced on Twitter, comes "after much personal reflection ...

The band explained Thursday that they'd named themselves "Lady Antebellum" back in 2006 after the "southern 'antebellum' style home where we took our first photos" — AKA a slave plantation ...