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 ...
DETROIT (AP) -- An Egyptian immigrant who lives in Detroit is asking the U.S. government to classify him as black, not white. Mostafa Hefny has been trying to get the racial designation since the ...
A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from May 10, by announcing ...
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, ...
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 ...