A Southern black woman living in South Carolina confronts herself and the legacy of the Confederacy.

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.

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

Through conversations with his great-great aunt, a man learns the history of a formerly enslaved family matriarch. His brother’s recent arrest gains new meaning as he learns more about his ancestors.

Sometime after the abolishment of slavery, a white Louisianan man is tasked to find a black man accused of murder.

Keisha's son attends a bankrupt public school system where the all-white teaching staff are abusive and physically violent towards the majority-black student body. She'll do anything to give her child a better life, even if it means forging papers that say she lives in a different neighborhood.

At the dawn of the Great Depression, an aged Black man returns to the Virginia plantation where he was born a slave 99 years ago. His arrival forces the now-destitute family who once owned him to confront their poverty and their racism alike.

A white woman talks to several Negro slaves who tell her stories about their personal lives. She learns about their partners and their and families.

An African American sharecropper is suddenly evicted from his home. When he tries to convince his landlord to stay, his landlord falsely accuses him of threatening violence and throws him into the jaws of the unfair justice system.

A Black writer in the 1930s sets out for Durham working on a project about the folklore of ex-slaves. During his work, he comes across the Night Doctors who will take everything he has for him to go free.