While researching her role as Nat Turner’s wife in the new film “The Birth of a Nation,” actress Aja Naomi King found a small but crucial sentence in an 1831 Richmond, Va., newspaper clipping. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour »“I gave myself the liberty to create a history for Cherry,” King said. Fox Searchlight Pictures Nate Parker as Nat Turner and Aja Naomi King as Cherry in a scene from "The Birth of a Nation." Nate Parker as Nat Turner and Aja Naomi King as Cherry in a scene from "The Birth of a Nation." With such little evidence in the historical record about Turner’s wife, it’s unknown whether she was raped or not.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2016 09:56 UTC