Spanning several decades, this is a doomed love story of a Black jazz singer & a woman able to pass as white in a racist society.
A Jazzman’s Blues (2022)
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
The inspiring life story of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi.
A League of Their Own (2022)
During WW 2 a group of white women face sexism on a baseball team while a Black woman ballplayer is rejected because of her race.
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (2022)
The triumph over Jim Crow of singer Marian Anderson is beautifully told in picture & song in this inspiring documentary.
Emergency (2022)
When college housemates find a white girl unconscious on the floor of their house, their fears, expressed by “three brown guys hanging over a white girl ” leads to desperate measures, some of them very funny.
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022)
A demented Black man agrees to a white doctor’s deal to take his serum so he can remember a treasure & find the murderer of his nephew, much to the disapproval of the young Black woman caring for him.
Amend: The Fight for America (2021)
Will Smith, using graphics & actors, hosts this survey of the long struggle for Blacks to become full citizens, centering on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020)
This documentary follows an activist intent on proving that 2 men imprisoned for killing Malcolm X are innocent & real killer was free living in Newark.
Passing (2021)
Irene’s upper-class life is set into turmoil when after years she is re-united with her friend Clare who has married, passing as white,
Son of the South (2020)
Writer-director Barry Alexander Brown’s film is based on Bob Zellner’s well-received 2008 autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. The author’s move from sympathetic but do-nothing white moderate to zealous C-R activist is a good illustration of Dr. King’s criticism in his famous prison letter. At first …