Within a few pages of the 700-page memoir the Hawaii born Obama, a young community organizer, is in Chicago, the city that “changed the arc of my life.” ...

Promised Land (n.): A place perceived to be where enslaved people and, later, African Americans more generally, can find refuge and live in freedom. (Etymology: A reference to the biblical story ...

Lucas Black has joined the cast of the Gus Van Sant-directed Promised Land for Focus Features. He’ll also play a role in the Brian Helgeland-directed 42 for Warner Bros. In Promised Land, Black ...

As in American life, matters of race in “A Promised Land” are omnipresent. They pop up and then leave us to deal with the aftermath. One minute you’re reading about, say, the mortgage crisis ...

Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. But as America pays tribute to him and his peaceful fight for equality, convulsions of racism continue to wrack the country.