A schoolteacher at a newly desegregated Southern school agonizes over whether to turn a Black student in for the murder of a white boy in an alley fight, in order to prevent a white mob from murdering the student's friends and family. The Black student explains he didn't commit the murder and only acted in self-defense, but he insists on turning himself in to protect his neighborhood.

The investigation of a Black teenager's suspicious murder leads a private investigator into a web of mafia conspiracies, corporate cover-ups, and a quest to expose environmental racism.

A Black man who has worked for a white family for decades struggles with legal and mental trouble, despite the half-hearted efforts of the family.

When given a high-profile job, an assassin tries to figure out the motivation.

An African American man from the twentieth century goes back in time to prevent his town from being destroyed by a mob of violent whites.

An owner of a political consulting company colludes with a stripper to bring a U.S. presidential candidate down.

A white soldier plots to kill a Black lieutenant, but the Black lieutenant knows how to keep his enemies close.

A violent murder takes place in a small town in Arkansas, culminating in rumors of satanic rituals, debauched conspiracies, and the accusations of three boys.

As he reflects on a murder perpetrated by his father, a college professor considers the history of his family and how race and violence intersect.

The Chief of the Chickasaw tribe brings his nephew to the United States capitol to be judged by a reimagined Jacksonian era President after the mysterious death of a white man on Chickasaw property. The rest of his people follow to witness the trial, and the President quickly becomes overwhelmed and avoidant of the droves of indigenous peoples he looks down upon, and goes to great lengths to clear them from the capitol.