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  Good White People

  Good White People

  Directed by Jarrod Cann & Erick Stoll • Documentary • 2016 • 16 minutes

  In the Spring of 2001, the African-American community of Over-the-Rhine in downtown Cincinnati arose in protest after unarmed 19-year-old, Timothy Thomas, was killed by a white officer named Steven Roach. In the years follow...

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  1:27:27

  Black is... Black Ain't

  Black is... Black Ain't

  Directed by Marlon Riggs • Documentary • 1995 • 87 minutes

  Having grappled with the stereotypes imposed upon black people by white America, Riggs turned his attention to another fraught issue: the definitions of “blackness” that African-Americans impose on each other. Weaving together poetry, co...

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  A Reckoning in Boston

  A Reckoning in Boston

  Directed by James Rutenbeck • Documentary • 2022 • 84 minutes

  Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler enrolled in a rigorous night course in the humanities at a community center in their Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.

  Kafi, 44, sharp, witty and restless, dropped out of school at 15. She had her first ...