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The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Nate Parker plays Nat Turner, a slave and a preacher who starts a rebellion against slave owners, in ‘Birth of a Nation.’ Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures.

‘The Birth of a Nation’ remembered for controversy not content

October 17, 2016

Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” aimed to start a discussion on race relations in the United States, but instead is weighed down by its director’s ghosts from the past. On Feb. 8, 1915, D.W....

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