Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra. Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last ...

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt in the years 51-30 BC, is back in the news thanks to a controversial docudrama series on Netflix called Queen Cleopatra. Much debate has raged about her ethnicity. The queen ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra documentary, which premieres this Wednesday, May 10, has a reputation that precedes it, already grabbing headlines for its bold portrayal of the ...

“Queen Cleopatra,” a Netflix series starring British actress Adele James that premieres next week, has put some people’s noses badly out of joint. They are upset because James is Black and Cleopatra ...

Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into a modern, and decidedly Western, debate — about Black representation in Hollywood — in which she has no real place. By ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...