American public figure, leader of the Civil Rights Movement, known for his speech I Have a Dream Martin Luther King was a pastor in a church in Montgomery, who became very popular and famous because of his acts towards the …
The unfair accusation of murder of one of the champions in American boxing – upon a true case The story of the American-Canadian boxer Rubin Carter – the Hurricane (1937–2014), popular all over the world from Bob Dylan’s hit of …
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, …
Author: Ta- Nehisi Coates In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our …
The Hate U Give is the debut novel of American author Angie Thomas. It is inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and examines topics like racism, police brutality and activism. A film adaptation was released in 2018. 16-year-old Starr …
The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of fourteen-year-old Lily Owens who leaves the life she knows behind and embarks on a journey in search of a much needed truth. South Carolina. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has …
Racial tensions in Clanton, a small town in Mississippi, reach boiling point after a brutal crime. Two drunk white racists ruthlessly assault a ten-year-old black girl, Tonya Hailey. Her father, Carl Lee, avenges his daughter’s shattered life by shooting the …
This Italian drama shows the difficult and dangerous life trip of two young men from Burkina Faso that decide to go to Italy to start a new life. After surviving to desert bandits and a threatening sea voyage the protagonists …
The Express is the real story of the life of Ernie Davis, one of the best American football players at the university level in the decade of the 1960s. It shows how Ernie Davis, an African American person who comes …
“The Blind side” is a family sports drama based on the true story of the football player Michael Oher. Michael stayed with different families when he was a child due to his mother’s drug addiction. Every time he stayed with …
Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – three brilliant African-American women working at NASA in 1961, so the unit was segregated by race and sex.Following the success of Soviet Union’s launch of …
Latin America’s leading purveyor of politically engaged cinema is back: Sérgio Bianchi returns with a caustic, at times humorous, and always highly provocative look at two hot button subjects in his native Brazil: race relations and economic inequality. Bianchi’s film …
The movie is based on a true story in which the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to place his team …
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Steve McQueen (Hunger) directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, …
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make …
