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A Black couple vacationing in France implodes after facing countless microaggressions, taking their discontent out on one another.

In Iowa, a young Black man goes to a party where he meets a host of artist types who cause him to reflect on how people relate to each other.

When a star player on his professional basketball team falls during the big game, a fellow player reflects on the history of Black people in the United States that brought them to that moment.

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.

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.

A Black man survives a train crash that he caused, and thinks back on the mysterious stranger who revealed his true heritage to him: he is a shoggoth, a slave of the Elder Things, and in causing the crash he has set himself free.

A Black man who has worked for a white family for decades struggles with legal and mental trouble, despite the half-hearted efforts of the family.

A teenager's genetically determined superpowers earn him a position in a teen superhero squad, but as the only person of color, he begins to feel ostracized and wonders whether his efforts will ever truly be recognized.

A young Black girl confronts her overbearing mother's poverty and her lack of a father when she is coerced into attending a program intended to make her a "professional" member of society who can break the cycle of poverty.

A white schoolteacher attempts to connect with the only Black students in her class, a pair of twins whom the rest of their town looks down upon.