Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to avoid the rise "of a Black Messiah" that would mobilize the African-American community into a meaningful political force. This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures initiated by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI which aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Combining declassified documents, interviews, rare footage and exhaustive research, it investigates the government's role in the assassinations of Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King Jr. Were the murders the result of this concerted effort to avoid "a Black Messiah"?

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Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...

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A debate about the presence of black culture in Brazilian contemporaneity, as well as the various pa...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...

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A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a mone...

AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynchin...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society t...

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon...

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and...

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to th...

Grand Saline, Texas, was a sleepy, unremarkable town—until a white preacher lit himself on fire to p...

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

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