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, ...

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 ...

First: Just register the laziness of that title. All right. The Inspiring True Story behind Great Debaters is the 1930s championship streak of East Texas’s all-black Wiley College debate team, coached ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 ...

The Great Debaters starts, like many films, in transition: a woman sitting on a bus, staring out at a deceivingly calm-looking country landscape. Although an overused device for a titles sequence, ...

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, ...

Locals are trying out for parts in Denzel Washington's new movie, "The Great Debaters." A casting call was held at the Louisiana Boardwalk Saturday. The movie about a 1930's debate team from Wiley ...

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 ...

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 ...

As with Hillary Swank’s recent, largely overlooked Freedom Writers, The Great Debaters is a based-on-a-true-story film about a selfless teacher who changes the lives of his students through the good ...

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 ...