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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A documentary exploring the life, career, art and legacy of Marian Anderson.
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Entremeando anedotas pessoais, entrevistas e revelações chocantes, o advogado criminalista e especialista em direitos humanos Jeffery Robinson delineia a brutal linha de tempo do racismo contra negros nos Estados Unidos, desde os tempos da escravidão até o mito moderno de um país pós-racial.
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Rita Moreno desafiou sua educação humilde e seu racismo implacável para se tornar parte de um seleto grupo que ganhou um Emmy, Grammy, Oscar e Tony. Ao longo de uma carreira de setenta anos, ela abriu o caminho para artistas hispano-americanos, recusando-se a ser categorizada em estereótipos unidimensionais.
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$avy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money.
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Black Art: In the Absence of Light é um documentário americano de 2021, dirigido e produzido por Sam Pollard. O filme segue vários artistas afro-americanos e suas contribuições para o mundo da arte.
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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.
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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?
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Depois de anos sendo a responsável por conduzir diversos presos ao seu destino final no corredor da morte, a guarda Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) se prepara para mais uma execução, quando cria um inesperado laço afetivo. Desorientada e confusa, Bernadine começa a realizar questionamentos morais a respeito do trabalho que vem exercendo.
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Depois de anos sendo a responsável por conduzir diversos presos ao seu destino final no corredor da morte, a guarda Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) se prepara para mais uma execução, quando cria um inesperado laço afetivo. Desorientada e confusa, Bernadine começa a realizar questionamentos morais a respeito do trabalho que vem exercendo.
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Depois de uma reviravolta, um pai solo e seus quatro filhos mimados são forçados a cortar despesas e repensar o que importa de verdade.
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Esta meditação intimista e intimista sobre o lendário contador de histórias examina sua vida, seus trabalhos e os temas poderosos que enfrentou ao longo de sua carreira literária. Toni Morrison lidera uma assembléia de colegas, críticos e colegas em uma exploração da raça, da história, da América e da condição humana.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A documentary springing from the directors own relationship with her son who lacks a consistent relationship with his father.
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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.
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Quando os alunos brancos de uma escola decidem dar uma festa temática sobre a raça negra, quatro alunos negros começam uma manifestação. Esta é uma sátira feroz ao racismo e ao pensamento politicamente correto e condescendente a respeito da diversidade racial.
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Ruby embarca em uma jornada de autodescoberta quando abandona a faculdade de medicina para se concentrar no bem-estar de seu marido encarcerado e condenado a oito anos de prisão.
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Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
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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.
