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.

On an island off the coast of South Carolina, two men quickly find themselves plagued by a mysterious spirit after one of them steals a flask from an African American man’s grave.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

A well-known Black singer and actor prepares to leave Paris and expose himself and his family to the racism of the United States once again.

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