CAIRO, Egypt (TND) — A lawyer in Egypt has reportedly filed a lawsuit over Netflix's depiction of famous Egyptian ruler Queen Cleopatra as a Black woman in a new season of a docudrama series. Most of ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rebecca Futo Kennedy, associate professor at Denison University, about the flak surrounding the Netflix docudrama Queen Cleopatra, which depicts her as Black. The new ...

Netflix’s upcoming Queen Cleopatra docudrama isn’t sitting well with one Egyptian man. Mahmoud al-Semary, a lawyer in the North African nation, filed a lawsuit with Egypt’s public prosecutor against ...

A thinly-veiled guise for anti-Blackness has Egyptians enraged and wanting to clarify history. The African nation’s citizens are outraged over the “Blackwashing” of Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra. One ...

Egypt‘s Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to controversy surrounding the casting choice for Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra documentary. The government agency has declared that Cleopatra was ...

Anyone who’s ever filled out a census document or taken the SATs is familiar with that odd moment when you have to bubble in your racial classification. For many, the choices are confusing, limiting, ...

There was a reason Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were hierarchal societies sustained by enslaved labor.

*An Egyptian lawyer is seeking to ban Netflix in the country because a Black actress portrays Cleopatra in “African Queens: Queen Cleopatra,” a documentary set to debut on the platform in May.

Responding to Netflix casting a Black woman as Cleopatra, a government-owned Egyptian media outlet is making a documentary that will depict the queen with an actress whose features and coloring are ...