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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.
6) Sounder
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Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
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Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Ephraim Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—for nearly a decade. His feature-length debut, THE INHERITANCE, is a vibrant, engaging ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to form a collective of Black artists and activists.
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Lonnie is unlucky in love and living with her mother. Her two crazy best friends, Camilla and China convince Lonnie to "switch the script" during a weekend corporate retreat and they teach her how women can rally take control over men. With their advice and a pretty woman style makeover, the once socially awkward Lonnie suddenly has all the men eating out of the palm of her hand. She impresses and overwhelms every man in the place with her beauty...
11) The Ball Method
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Alice Ball, a 23 year old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10 year old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
12) Jerico
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The story of best friends who set out on a dangerous, but comedic journey that challenges the restrictions of a Jim Crow South to fulfill their dreams.
15) America's dream
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In "Long black song," a hard-working farmer invests what little he has in a gift for his wife, while back home, she falls for the advances of a traveling salesman. A small-town principal risks his career to defend a young boy's image of a black Christ painted for a state-wide competition in "The boy who painted Christ black." A jazz-joint piano player in "The Reunion" comes to terms with prejudices that have haunted her since childhood, when she is...
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Jason has always had it together. He's educated and financially stable with no baby mama drama. When he broke off his longtime relationship, he got caught up in the bachelor lifestyle, not realizing life was passing him by. One by one, his friends start settling down, leaving Jason the odd man out. He now feels pressure to catch up and finds himself in awkward dating encounters with women. Through it all, his friends are there to help him along the...
18) Till
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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.
20) Friday
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"Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday."--Container.
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