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(ABC, 2014) is an American sitcom created by Kenya Barris. A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Blackish
The film that got Spike Lee his Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay), This movie was based on the absolutely true story of a black police officer who went undercover as a Klansman.
BlacKkKlansman
Can men and women ever truly be platonic friends? This is the eternal question that director Rick Famuyiwa ponders in ? . Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sydney (Sanaa Lathan) have been friends since their childhood days in New York, but there have never been any romantic sparks between the two of them
What is Brown Sugar
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
What is Boyz n the Hood
This intense drama is the adaptation of award-winning author Alice Walker's novel and deals with serious themes - incest, marital abuse, overt racism and sexism
What is The Color Purple
an American crime drama television series created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron. Set in 1983 Los Angeles, the series revolves around the first crack epidemic and its impact on the culture of the city.
What is Snowfall
Chris, who goes to meet his white girlfriend, Rose’s parents for the first time at their house the middle of the woods. What follows are hints to microaggressions, like Rose’s father telling him that he “would have voted for Obama for a third time” and a mind-bending twist that kept us away from anyone with a tea cup for days.
What is Get Out
a successful art curator who's grappling with the recent death of her mother. But as we follow their romance, we're also introduced to a love story from the past that's unexpectedly linked to the present.
What is The Photograph
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving family.
What is meet the Browns
a standout six-part miniseries chronicling an African woman's quest for freedom after years of enslavement. It views historical events - and the evils of slavery - through a realistic and often sobering lens but tends to focus on the main character's strength and resilience rather than on the horrors of her struggles.
what is The Book of Negroes
An American comedy television series. An aspiring Wall Street stockbroker (Andrew Rannell) starts working for an eccentric veteran (Don Cheadle) who has secrets of his own.
What is Black Monday
There have been black superhero films before, but none like this. We’ve seen campy superhero movies like Robert Townsend’s Meteor Man and Damon Wayans’ Blankman. Then of course there were anti-heroes like Spawn and Blade. But this movie is vastly different from its predecessors, in a good way.
What is Black Panther
Based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name, this acclaimed romance follows a young Black couple, Fonny and Tish, whose future is derailed after Fonny is arrested for rape—a crime he did not commit.
What is If Beale Street Could Talk
A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.
What is US
This three-hour-long documentary film features a lot of intense discussion by two young men about their experiences with parental separation and divorce, familial drug use, extreme poverty, sport-related injury, urban blight and violence, and teen pregnancy, all while they're trying to earn college basketball scholarships.
What is Hoop Dreams
American crime drama television series. After being released from prison, crime boss Bumpy Johnson takes on the Genovese crime family to regain control, while also forming an alliance with Malcolm X.
Godfather of Harlem
A fictional story about a historically black college and university marching band, was written by Tina Gordon Chism and Shawn Schepps. The story is about a young drummer from New York who enters the fictional Atlanta A&T University and bumps heads with the leader of his new school
What is Drumline
This Oscar-winning film follows three distinct times in the life of Chiron, a young Black man growing up in Miami who experiments with his sexuality as he faces countless life setbacks.
What is Moonlight
The everyday life and problems of the Josephs, a black family living in Chicago, Illinois.
What is Soul Foos
a 1978 American musical adventure film produced in collaboration between Motown Productions and Universal Pictures featuring an entirely African-American cast. The film follows the adventures of a shy Harlem, New York, schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to a new Land.
What is The Wiz
American musical drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. The life of hip hop mogul, and CEO of _______Entertainment.
What is Empire
an outrageous comedy that made us never look at a grapefruit the same way again, it was also a heartwarming story about sisterhood
What is Girls Trip
A physical therapist lands her dream job as she's hired to work with a professional basketball player. But as she begins to fall in love with him, his attention is focused on her best friend.
What is Just Wright
Sarah Jane's fair skin allows her to pass for white and she fervently rejects being identified as black.
What is Imitation of Life
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
What is Car Wash