Who’s driving the #BoycottWomanKing trend on social media in protest of the Viola Davis-starring historical epic that hit theaters today? Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not the same people who dropped ...

We get a Star Wars-inspired scrawl at the start of the film to lay the groundwork, but it’s fairly easy to pick up on the issues at hand from the start. It’s 1823, and the West African Kingdom of ...

The recently released Hollywood blockbuster The Woman King is a movie loosely based on the Dahomey civilization in West Africa that existed from 1600 to 1900. Dahomey warriors The movie follows the ...

Viola Davis’ highly anticipated film The Woman King premiered over the weekend, but while some fans praised the actress for her stellar on-screen performance, a few critics lit into the film for ...

Oscar winner Viola Davis has responded to critics of her latest film, "The Woman King," after they called for a boycott of the movie because it isn't entirely historically accurate. The film follows ...

Leonard Wantchekon is a politics professor. Over the past year, he consulted with the makers of “The Woman King,” the new historical drama about a group of all-female warriors from the West African ...

Chief Hunsu Athanzuku, the leader of Jegba Quarters in Badagry, Lagos State, said yesterday that it was the Dahomey war that led to the creation of Badagry kingdom by his great-grandfather in 1738. He ...

“The Woman King” is already a triumph in many ways. A work of historical fiction about the female warriors of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, the film opened at No. 1 at the box office last ...

Viola Davis strikes an imposing, inspiring figure in "The Woman King," playing a fierce, noble 1800s warrior in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. Davis, at 57, has never looked this tough or this ...