"It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's," Lupita Nyong'o said in her graciously beautiful acceptance speech for best supporting ...

Thirteen years after its release, 12 Years a Slave still unsettles viewers through Steve McQueen’s refusal to let the camera ...

In its Tuesday edition, the New York Times published a correction of an article that ran on Jan. 20, 1853, which twice misspelled the name of the man portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie, “12 ...

AVOYELLES PARISH, La. (KALB) - After three years of planning, Avoyelles Parish unveiled the rooting of a new statue named “Hope Out of Darkness” commemorating Solomon Northup, a free man who was ...

Here's something of another victory for new media over old media. The New York Times on Tuesday corrected a 161-year-old report about the enslavement of Solomon Northup, after a Twitter user pointed ...

This illustration shows Solomon Northup and Henry B. Northup reuniting on a Louisiana plantation from which Solomon Northrup was rescued. This illustration from Solomon Northup's a book "Twelve Years ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A 13-foot-tall statue of Solomon Northup, entitled “Hope Out of Darkness,” was unveiled earlier this summer on the lawn of the Lincoln Bathhouse in the Saratoga Spa State Park ...

Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-- Historians know where Solomon Northup was born, where he lived and where he worked. They know whom he married and how many children he had. They know he played the fiddle and ...

Solomon Northup was a free black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, when in 1841 he was lured into leaving the state, and was sold into slavery. After being rescued nearly twelve years later, ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A bronze statue of Solomon Northup, renowned city historical figure and author of the memoir “Twelve Years A Slave,” was unveiled Thursday morning at Saratoga Spa State Park to ...

Edition statement at head of title. Editor's preface signed and dated: David Wilson, Whitehall, N.Y., May 1853. "To Harriet Beecher Stowe: whose name, throughout the world, is identified with the ...

Relatives of the author say the Oscar-nominated film takes Northup's legacy to the next level; remarks one: "Everyone knows who Steve McQueen is. And Brad Pitt." By THR Staff 12 Years a Slave author ...