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It shows the birth of a nation in a land where racism was rife. What’s most troubling is that 100 years later the racism depicted by Griffith in his epic, while far less egregious today,...
The Birth of a Nation is three hours of racist propaganda — starting with the Civil War and ending with the Ku Klux Klan riding in to save the South from black rule during the Reconstruction...
How could "The Birth of a Nation" not have been a factor in creating moral outrage at perceived—and often false—injustices? More such violence took place in the 1920s through the 1940s.
March 3, 2015 at 6:30 a.m. EST. Hooded Klansmen catch former plantation hand Gus in a scene from “The Birth of a Nation.” A century ago, on March 3, 1915, the most reprehensibly racist film in...
February 1, 2013. The release of “Django Unchained,” and the discussion surrounding it, have brought “Birth of a Nation”—D. W. Griffith’s disgustingly racist yet titanically original 1915...
“The Birth of a Nation” was overtly racist. Its pro-Southern take on the civil war and its aftermath paints African-Americans (played by whites in blackface) as lecherous brutes, and lauds a...
The film sheds new light on the depressing history of the release of D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”—both a repellent display of racism and the most original work of the early...
