"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raymond De Felitta explores life in 1960s Mississippi and the momentous impact of Booker Wright, an African-American waiter who voiced opinions on race relations on network TV. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"Rediscovered historical footage plants the seed for a moving, beautifully crafted Civil Rights doc." - John DeFore, **Hollywood...

How 9/11 ushered in an era of fear, mistrust, and division in America. The compromises and consequences for American democracy--from the terror attacks, through four presidencies, wars abroad, and ultimately insurrection at home.

An explosive video goes viral, showing a white school resource officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her desk. One woman uproots her life to support the girl and dismantle the system, including facing the police officer.

At a time when many claim that systemic racism in America is a myth, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM? exposes it.

More Than a Word offers a fascinating look inside the growing movement to change the name of the Washington R*dskins football team.Directed by brothers John and Kenn Little, who are members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the film traces how the word “r*dskin” evolved from being a term of racist derision and slander to being embraced as the name of one of the NFL’s most beloved franchises. It also draws on the voices of Native American activists...

A multi-racial group of college students in a weekend racial sensitivity workshop discuss affirmative action, self-segregation, internalized racism and cultural identity. Skin Deep chronicles the eye-opening journey of a diverse and divided group of college students as they awkwardly but honestly confront each other's racial prejudices. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances Reid follows students from the University of Massachusetts, Texas A&M,...

David Butler is a discouraged but optimistic high school English teacher struggling to connect with his uninterested students. So when honor student Lucas Ward (Dylan Sprouse) transfers into his class, he's thrilled to teach such a passionate scholar. David’s excitement soon turns to fear however as he realizes that Lucas’ perfectionism is pathological and that the vengeful pupil is willing to destroy anyone standing between him and a perfect...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to...

Post-Hiroshima, the US Army engaged in classified open-air studies on the effects of aerosol radiation. Low-income African-Americans in St. Louis were the unwitting subjects of that testing, by design. TARGET: ST. LOUIS investigates historical catalysts for these events, tracing firsthand accounts and questions from survivors to subsequent Federal legislation requiring informed consent by human subjects. Official Selection at **Los Angeles Cinefest**...