In a statement released to Billboard.com, Beyonce’s camp denies that the superstar has plans to write and star in a film about the life of Saartjie Baartman. “Beyonce is in no way tied to this project ...

If you believe London's gossip rag the Sun, then megastar Beyoncé is set to write and headline a new movie about Saartjie Baartman, probably known more colloquially as the "Hottentot Venus," a ...

Growing up, I never wore clothes that would emphasize my backside. From an early age, I was built like Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan — all waist and ass, a little bit of fairy dust, and nothing ...

For most of the week, the internet has been overloaded with an assortment of commentary from fans and naysayers alike amid a flurry of rumors that Beyoncé had plans to write and star in a film about ...

Have you ever heard of “The Hottentot Venus”? In 1810, a buxom and dramatically big-bottomed young woman named Saartjie Baartman was talked into leaving her native South Africa to go to England, where ...

There might be a Saartjie Baartman flick at some point in the future; Beyonce just won’t be involved with it. After reports surfaced that Bey would be writing and starring in a film telling the story ...

Traditionally, the human beings with uncommon attributes who are featured as carnival side-show attractions can hold a certain degree of power in their profession. It is their indisputable reality ...

The war over women’s bodies is nothing new, even if GBV (gender-based violence) has only recently moved to the top of our national lexicon. Saartjie Baartman was making headlines way back in the 1800s ...

The perceived ownership of a black woman’s body is an issue deeply woven into the fabric of the ugliest pieces of history. This poisonous thinking has not been quarantined to one section of the globe.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And if you believe a tweet from Nylon magazine, Baartman was just a "freakshow performer." The tweet above has since been deleted ...