Plus, the new face of Mr. Clean is African-American and Jay Z believes that Rikers Island prison should be shut down.

The director caught up with us on the BET Awards red carpet to dish on the highly anticipated film and why it's not a traditional movie about African-Americans.

Fox Searchlight released the first trailer of The Birth of a Nation. The award-winning biopic of Nat Turner is scheduled for release in October.

The actor turned director speaks about his film "The Birth of a Nation" that received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Paramount and Netflix dropped out of an overnight bidding war that ended with the historically large offer from Fox Searchlight.