
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.