Alas, this personal/legalistic story about 53 Africans who broke free of their shackles while aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad keeps ... A Spielberg movie short on human emotion?

“That was my movie, too. That was about my people ... In 1839, a Spanish slave ship called La Amistad was hauling 53 kidnapped Africans from Havana to another Cuban port. After managing to ...

Lee’s The Best Man, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, the Gabrielle Union series Being Mary Jane and a dozen Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer on Long Island. She was 58. Her rep ...