The reason? “Queen Cleopatra” depicts the legendary monarch as Black. Cleopatra, who died in 30 B.C., remains a source of pride for disparate communities. Many contemporary Egyptians view her ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched ...

Prior to the season’s release, actress and series producer Jada Pinkett Smith defended the decision for a Black Cleopatra as "important." "We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black ...

Was Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra Black? That’s the hotly debated question surrounding Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra,” a drama-documentary series about the pharaonic ruler narrated and executive ...

Debates over the race of Netflix’s "Queen Cleopatra" series miss the point of her cultural impact, according to a guest essay from the New York Times. Dr. Gwen Nally and Dr. Mary Hamil Gilbert ...

He’s accused Netflix of “trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is black.” “Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she ...

In the first few minutes of the series, Haley recalls her grandmother telling her “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black.'” Critics glommed on to the snippet after ...

The monumental legacy of Cleopatra, Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, is frequently eclipsed by reductive contemporary discussions over her identity. She has been variously claimed as ...

This underestimates how devotedly anti-Black Cleopatra's supposed image preservationists are. The "Queen Cleopatra" trailer's release in mid-April prompted an eruption among the usual right-wing ...

Some Egyptians complained that the feature was appropriating their culture and rewriting their history, primarily because Cleopatra is portrayed by a Black woman in the film. The movie ...

"Queen Cleopatra" stars Adele James — a light brown-skinned British actress who has a white mother and a Black father — as the famous monarch. "Why have we long depicted Cleopatra as white?" ...

They argue that casting Gaga or Jolie wouldn’t count as whitewashing, because Cleopatra was in fact white. Others want the iconic role be played by a black actor, citing revelations that ...