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The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.
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 2018, a pedestrian on the New York City’s Lower East Side witnesses a young Black couple in love, prompting a consideration about the storytelling, hope, and Nelson Mandela.
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.
A Black, southern house servant with internalized racism, joins her mistress on a visit to another region, where she observes Black people acting with something she abhors: autonomy.
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.
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 Southern black woman living in South Carolina confronts herself and the legacy of the Confederacy.
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.
Sometime after the abolishment of slavery, a white Louisianan man is tasked to find a black man accused of murder.