Having followed Nate Parker's film "The Birth of a Nation" since I first heard of its acclaim at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I was taken aback when I went on the Internet and saw articles upon articles...

"The Birth of a Nation" welcomed controversy from the beginning, as it shares its name with a silent film from 1915. The older version of "Birth of a Nation," set during and after the Civil War, used...