Meet Nate Parker — He’s Black
Last year Hollywood faced a brutal backlash for not nominating a single black actor or filmmaker for a major Academy Award. The prime beneficiary of the backlash was 36-year-old Nate Parker, who spent seven years birthing his directorial debut, “Birth of a Nation,” a somewhat fictionalized look at Nat Turner, a slave who led a bloody revolt in Virginia in 1831.
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