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Cover of If Beale Street Could Talk
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Barry Jenkins
Based on the novel by James Baldwin,  “a timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year-old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a…
Cover of Black Panther
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Ryan Coogler
“King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the…
Cover of I Am Not Your Negro
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Raoul Peck
“Using James Baldwin’s unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author’s friends, Medgar…
Cover of Raising Bertie
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Margaret Byrne
“Recorded over six years, Raising Bertie delivers an authentic and tender portrait of the lives of three young boys as they face a precarious coming of age within Bertie County, a…
Cover of Fruitvale Station
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Ryan Coogler
“Oscar wakes up on New Years’s Eve and decides to try and be a better person to those he cares about. The day goes well until an encounter with police officers puts him in the…
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Dee Rees
“Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good…
Poster for Malcolm X
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Spike Lee
“Adapted from the novel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X written by Alex Haley, this is an amazing biopic of one of the most influential African American leaders to date. It…
Poster for Daughters of the Dust
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Julie Dash
“Set in 1902, members of a Gullah family from the Sea Islands off Georgia’s coast struggle with the decision to move North, leaving behind a culture still very close to its…
Poster for Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
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William Greaves
“Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period.”
Poster for Ethnic Notions
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Marlon Riggs
“Ethnic Notions is Marlon Riggs’ Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted…