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Posted on December 9, 2022December 9, 2022

Emancipation (2022)

Based on an iconic 1863 photo, a slave, torn from his family to work on rebel railroad, escapes into a swamp pursued by a cruel slave catcher, winds up in the Union Army.

Posted on January 12, 2022

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.

Posted on August 30, 2013October 28, 2013

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

Posted on March 15, 2013January 14, 2015

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

In Depression era Alabama two young children of a white lawyer witness their father buck racism by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman.

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