By Rivea Ruff ·September 21, 2021 Updated
Hollywood’s recently-piqued interest in diasporic stories from Black creators is granting us with even more major-release film gems.
TriStar Pictures has announced production on The Woman King, a dramatic epic inspired by factual historical events that occurred in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey (general of the all-female military unit, and Nawi (Mbedu), an ambitious recruit, who together fought enemies who violated their honor, enslaved their people and threatened