Sarge
Darby Shaw, uma estudante de Direito de Nova Orleans, descobre uma trama que envolve o assassinato de dois membros da Suprema Corte na mesma noite e prepara um dossiê contendo suas opiniões e estudos sobre os crimes. Ela chega à uma surpreendente conclusão e, nas mãos erradas, as informações daquele documento significariam uma revolta na política do país. Assim, quando Darby vê que sua vida corre perigo e tem apenas ao seu lado Gray Grantham, um jornalista, ele passa a ajudá-la a tentar elucidar a trama por completo.
Van Dyke
Em um mundo de conchavos políticos, até mesmo um charlatão profissional como Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) pode encontrar um adversário superior. Depois de usar a popularidade de seu nome para ser eleito, Johnson começa a receber as mesmas regalias financeiras de outros políticos. Porém, ao investigar a conexão entre empresas elétricas e câncer em crianças, ele surpreendentemente decide lutar para dar um fim a esta situação, só que para isso terá que enfrentar um inescrupuloso político.
Cholly
Uma homenagem ao controverso ativista negro e líder da luta pela liberação negra. Ele chegou ao fundo do poço durante seu encarceramento nos anos 50, tornou-se um muçulmano negro e, mais tarde, líder da Nação do Islã. Seu assassinato em 1965 deixou um legado de autodeterminação e orgulho racial.
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm marched on - continuing to spread the word of equality and brotherhood right up until the moment of his brutal and untimely assassination. Highlighted by newsreel footage and interviews, this is the story of the last twenty-four hours of Malcolm X. Featuring the music of jazz percussionist Max Roach.
Brother Peter
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Uncle Willie
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Trunk
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Sweetmeat
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Mr. Sims
Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.
