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

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

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.

A man encounters a racist sergeant who agitates his African American friend.

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.

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.

After a global nuclear war on Earth, white man rockets over to a community of Black expatriates living on Mars and begs them to take in the remaining survivors. A Black resident convinces his town they need to prevent racism by segregating any white newcomers, but his wife implores him to think of their common humanity.

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.

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.

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.