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Troy Maxon, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950's, finds the changing spirit of the 1960's hard to deal with.

Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of...

Ariel is a talented, strong-willed high school student with dreams of making the U.S. swim team when in a flash her world is turned upside down by a brutal event that causes her to turn inward and lose focus. Shocked and angered when the story starts to surface, her family and their entire community then join forces to get justice.

This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others. In the introduction, James V. Hatch sets the plays in a historical context as he describes the challenges presented to artists by the political and social climate of the time. The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles...

"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...

Inspired by the powerful true story, "Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot" follows Donna and Reverend Martin as they ignite a fire in the hearts of their rural church to embrace kids in the foster system that nobody else would take. By doing the impossible--adopting 77 children--this East Texas community proved that with real, determined love, the battle for America's most vulnerable can be won.

A transplanted Southerner helps other women living in a tenement on a dead-end street.

Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough, and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher.