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, ...

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 - 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, ...

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 ...

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 last night's NAACP Image Awards. "The Great Debaters" was named top film, while ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana State University Leadership Institute will host a free screening of "The Great ...

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 ...

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 ...