“The Apology” investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward…
Civil Rights
Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek), Joe Peeler
When the Muscogee Nation government abruptly repeals its landmark Free Press Act to muzzle the tribe…
Directed by Tahmina Rafaella
In this deeply humanist drama a woman is accused of being an unfit mother by her influential husband. Banu…
Directed by Monique N. Matthews
America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women…
Directed by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
“The Body Politic” follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal…
Directed by Robert Alan Underhill, Aravind Ragupathi
"Box Brown: A Box Marked Freedom" is the incredible TRUE story of Henry "Box" Brown, an enslaved man who…
Directed by Arthur Musah
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and…
Comic strips. Ancient paintings. Contemporary filmmaking. As these films prove, good art comes in…
Want to better understand what it means to be Black in America? Listen to the words — and, in…
Healthcare. Foster care. Criminal justice. Local government. Corruption can be found at any level of…
"This land is your land, this land is my land - But what about the indigenous" In reality, this land…
Identity. Orientation. Preference. Work. Sexuality is about so much more than physicality. Explore…
Breaking through all the bad faith talking points, the propaganda, and the misinformation, these…
Directed by Sascha Just
Chronicling the life of Ellis Marsalis Jr., the film follows the exceptional New Orleans composer,…
Directed by Rachid Hami
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during an initiation ritual at…
Directed by Barbara Kopple
“Gumbo Coalition” follows two visionary Civil Rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they…
Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs…
Animation from the far-flung corners of the globe, and beyond.
Zooming in on familiar historical events, this slate spotlights the kinds of personal stories rarely…
Directed by Kevin Willmott
The legacy of free-state battles in Kansas continues with modern-day friends of Dorothy who find…
Directed by Jennifer Takaki
For 50 years, Chinese-American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented Asian Pacific Americans…
Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos
A determined group of blue state advocates, midwives and doctors have been networking to increase…
Directed by Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in…
Directed by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortes
“The Space Race” uncovers the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and…
Directed by Michael Warren Wilson
In 1919, Black workers’ decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta…
