Before most of the family leave Igbo Landingto settle in the North, matriarch Nana ensures they remember their Gulah heriatge from Africa.
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
The sad story of how the FBI used a Black thief to get close to & set up Black Panther leader Fred Hampton for assassination in Chicago.
Birth of a Nation (2016)
In 1831 the slave Nat Turner, who had learned to read & was farmed out by his master to preach a gospel of obedience to other slaves, leads a bloody revolt.
ROOTS (1977 TV Series)
Alex Haley traces roots of his African heritage back to the days of slavery & then to Kunta Kinte, captured in Africa, sold into slavery in the Colonies, but never giving up his dream of freedom.
The Book of Negroes (2015)
A fresh take on Black History, this is the story of an African girl kidnapped, surviving the crossing & abuse of slavery, & finding freedom from the British during the Revolutionary War.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Black Cecil Gaines, serving as a butler at the White House, endures racism but sees the growing civil rights movement advance the status of his