Black Excellence

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

A visually stunning and emotionally rich debut from poet-turned-filmmaker Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of…

American Fiction

People's Choice Award Winner, Toronto International Film Festival Thelonious “Monk'' Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a down…

American Symphony

In 2022, the Grammy and Oscar-winning jazz and contemporary recording artist Jon Batiste faced a pivotal…

Black Barbie: A Documentary

In 1955, Beulah Mae Mitchell landed a toy testing job with Mattel and packed her bags…

Breaking the News

With men—often white men—making up 70% of policy and politics editors, journalists Emily Ramshaw and Amanda…

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

US Grand Jury Prize, Documentary | Sundance Film Festival One of America's greatest living poets, Nikki…

Gumbo Coalition

Powered by a mutual determination to empower Black and Latin American communities, two visionary civil rights…

OnBoard

In the summer of 2020, Merline Saintil, a former tech COO, and Robin Washington, a former…

Origin

U.S. Premiere Isabel Wilkerson, a pioneering African-American journalist and the first to receive a Pulitzer Prize,…

Rustin

Bayard Rustin, architect of the 1963 March on Washington, was one of America's great activists, organizers,…

The Space Race

Preceded by the short film For the Moon In a gripping account of the race against…

Stamped from the Beginning

Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (The 1619 Project) brings Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's acclaimed book of…

A Suite of Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

Program followed by discussion with filmmaker Kevin Everson, moderated by Claudrena Harold (UVA). Marbled Golden Eyes…

This World is Not My Own

Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated South all played…