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 ...

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 ...

The movie, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring biracial British actor Adele James as Queen Cleopatra, is set for release on May 10. It is the second part of a Netflix "docuseries" on African ...

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, ...

In response to Netflix casting a mixed race actress to play Cleopatra in a new series, a government-owned Egyptian media station says it will produce a documentary depicting the queen with an actress ...

The new Netflix docudrama "Queen Cleopatra" is stirring debate because the series portrays the iconic monarch as Black. Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities calls the show, quote, "a falsification ...