Kathryn Bostic

The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national conversation remains stalled due to legislative inaction, communities across the country examine their histories and take it upon themselves to arrange their own form of reparations. This detailed investigation of restitution presents accounts of everyday people confronting the past and exploring the possibilities of wealth transfer.

Lift shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless and home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City and the mentor that inspires them.

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Beyond her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, this comprehensive dive into Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks sheds light on her extensive organizing, radical politics, and lifelong dedication to activism.

A documentary exploring the life, career, art and legacy of Marian Anderson.

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.

$avy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money.

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.

The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats. Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?

사형을 집행하는 교도소장, 그녀가 또 다른 사형집행을 준비하는 과정에서 심리적 압박과 결과론적으로 살인에 대한 깊은 고민을 하게된다.

사형을 집행하는 교도소장, 그녀가 또 다른 사형집행을 준비하는 과정에서 심리적 압박과 결과론적으로 살인에 대한 깊은 고민을 하게된다.

혼자 네 아이를 키우는 라디오 DJ 러시. 그는 크리스마스를 앞두고 해고 통보를 받는다. 가장 큰 문제는 비싼 선물을 바라는 아이들. 이 난관을 어찌 헤쳐나가야 할까?

미국 흑인 여성 문학의 상징적 인물이자 노벨상 수상자인 토니 모리슨의 특별한 삶과 예술성을 탐구한다. 이 영화는 오하이오 주 로레인에서 스웨덴 스톡홀름까지의 놀라운 여정 등을 다룬다. 영화의 인터뷰이로는 지난 해 작고한 토니 모리슨 자신을 비롯해, 오프라 윈프리, 앤젤라 데이비스, 프랜 레보비츠 등 미국, 아프리카 문화의 대표적 페미니스트들이 출연하고 있다.

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.

"Bias" challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Through exposing her own biases, award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser highlights the nature of implicit bias, the grip it holds on our social and professional lives, and what it will take to induce change.

Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young sons courageously confronts the events of her own traumatic childhood.

July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lake County, Florida. The case of “The Groveland Four” included a race riot, torture, multiple murders, two trials and a Supreme Court reversal. Though widely covered by the national press, the case has been largely forgotten... even though it helped lay a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.

Black youth stereotypes are turned upside down in the the feature documentary film Purple Dreams. A two and a half year journey serves as an inspirational window into the lives of inner-city, at-risk students who succeed at their passion while embracing the transformative power of their arts education.

An unflinching look at how women are treated in the USA today examining issues such as workplace harassment, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault. It shows how discriminatory attitudes still prevail and influence society and argues for the need to improve laws that claim to protect women.

A documentary springing from the directors own relationship with her son who lacks a consistent relationship with his father.

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different. At age of 18, she finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair.

명문대에서 영화를 전공하고 있는 샘 화이트는 독설 라디오 쇼 '디어 화이트 피플'과 자신의 저서 '에보니 앤 아이비'를 통해 대학 내의 인종차별을 비판하며 단숨에 스타로 떠오른다. 한편 백인학생들의 리더 ‘커트’는 차기 학생회장으로까지 급부상한 ‘샘’을 깔보다 전교생 앞에서 씻을 수 없는 굴욕을 당한다. 이에 분노한 커트 일당은 ‘흑인 코스프레 파티’ 라는 상상초월의 복수극을 준비하는데...

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard.