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.

Some Egyptians complained that the feature was appropriating their culture and rewriting their history, primarily because Cleopatra is portrayed by a Black woman in the film.

A new Netflix docuseries has reignited an old debate: Was Cleopatra Black? But a historian whose work informed the show says we’re thinking about her race all wrong.

Egyptians are outraged over the "Blackwashing" of Netflix's "Queen Cleopatra." An anti-Black attorney has filed a lawsuit.

The Egyptian antiquities ministry went so far as to issue a statement: Cleopatra, it said, was light-skinned, not dark. So is Cleopatra black, or white? The answer is “neither”.

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The Egyptian government's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to Netflix's documentary casting controversy, claiming that Cleopatra had "white skin." ...

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.