The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.

An older white man in the South agrees to hide a Black fugitive on the same night his old lover visits with her husband and son. When a mob arrives at his house in pursuit of the fugitive, the older man inadvertently causes the death of his newfound kin.

After three years of being attacked with racism and hatred, a Black man decides to put his coworker in his place.

A young boy stays with his mother and their slaves at a farm in the Deep South, while his father and brother fight as Confederate soldiers. When Union soliders show up for a meal, the boy confronts the humanity of the enemy.

At the height of Jim Crow, a white American boy watches a baseball game that pits their town's Black and white residents against one another. When the white side begins to inflict harm on the Black team in order to win, the boy witnesses the violent reality of racism for the first time.

In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish.

A young white girl takes on responsibility for repaying Black people in America back for their suffering under slavery after hearing a gospel choir sing.

In Jim Crow North Carolina, a Black man new to town inadvertently becomes witness to a relationship between the town priest and a seventeen-year-old seminary student, and must stand trial when the priest is accused of statutory rape.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

A Black man living in the south flees to his friend's mother's house after shooting and killing someone.