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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"The Great Debaters" is about an underdog debate team that wins a national championship, and some critics have complained that it follows the formula of all sports movies by leading up, through great ...

Henry Lowe: A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot ...

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 ...