A 1916 film run in Bloomington drew sold-out crowds — and protests over its racist portrayal of Reconstruction.

February is Black History Month and syracuse.com is planning on telling several forgotten stories of the Black experience from the Syracuse’s and Central New York’s past. If you know of one and want ...

While “The Birth of a Nation,” one of the most controversial films of the 20th century, was the talk of the town in 1916 in Rochester, at least one sober voice tried to connect movie-goers with ...

At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7, 1916, and they were heralding the debut of D.W. Griffith’s film ...

Let’s say you got on the California Screamin’ Roller Coaster at Disney’s California Adventure and were stuck on the speeding ride for eight hours – you ride it over and over and over. How would that ...

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