Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers — they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films ...

MARSHALL, Texas -- Deep in the heart of East Texas, a small historically black college continues to get worldwide attention thanks to single motion picture. “When we arrive at tournaments, they say, ...

The Great Debaters, filmed in and around the Ark-La-Tex, held it's Hollywood premiere Tuesday night. The film was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and directed by Denzel Washington. The ...

It could be overly sentimental and feel-good, this movie about a pioneering black debate team in the segregated South. But Denzel Washington, as director and star, manages to find the right tone much ...

Los Angeles - Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters" and Tyler Perry's TBS series "House of Payne" took top honors at Thursday night's NAACP Image Awards. "The Great Debaters" was named top film, ...

Washington was the one who originally reached out to Smollett, brother of Jussie Smollett, first for 2007’s The Great Debaters. She was one of many younger actors who’d be cast as a student on a ...

Denzel Washington has donated $1 million to Wiley College for the resurrection of its historic debate team, the Associated Press reports. In his new film “The Great Debaters,” Washington plays real ...

Christmas came early for Denzel Washington. First, accolades, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor and plenty of Oscar buzz for his performance in “American Gangster.” Now there’s “The Great ...