Jean Celestin, harassed their accuser "absolutely untrue." By Scott Johnson Nate Parker - Getty - H 2016 On Thursday, a group of four self-described “educators, lawyers, professors, academics ...

“We believed some 17 years ago that Jean Celestin and Nate Parker were innocent of rape and we believe that now.” They also claim that many details of the trial are now being overlooked in the ...

By Rebecca Ford Four members of the Penn State community have released a statement in support of Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker and co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin, who have been at the ...

Four Penn State University alumni have come out in support of embattled actor Nate Parker and writer Jean McGianni Celestin, releasing a statement exclusively to The Root late Wednesday night.

Jean McGianni Celestin, Parker’s longtime friend ... continually insisted the sex was consensual, the accuser told Parker, “Nate, I didn’t want to have sex with you that night.

the case of Nate Parker is being relitigated in public. While attending Penn State in the late 1990s, Parker and his wrestling teammate Jean Celestin were accused of raping a female student.

Nate Parker was a 19-year-old sophomore wrestler when he and his fellow teammate Jean Celestin were accused by a female student of rape. Both men admitted they had sex at the same time with the ...

If Nate Parker thought the furor over his 1999 sexual-assault case and the 2012 suicide of his accuser would fade by the time The Birth of a Nation arrived in theaters Oct. 7, he miscalculated.

The Birth of a Nation director and star Nate Parker appeared ... The woman who accused Parker and his Birth of a Nation collaborator Jean Celestin of sexual assault died by suicide in 2012.

The imbroglio now engulfing Nate Parker touches on some of our culture ... he and his teammate, Jean Celestin — who co-wrote “Birth of a Nation” — were charged, and tried, for the ...

“I think Nate Parker and Jean Celestin knew this would come up. I think they thought that they could get away with exploiting my sister again, just like they did back at Penn State. They would ...

Four graduates of Penn State have released a statement supporting their former classmates – “The Birth of a Nation” director and star Nate Parker and his co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin ...