Storyline Voter registration leads to Murder in Mississippi when a "cracker"
Sheriff arrests white dilettante Carol Byrd and two other "Communist
Yankees" for "agitating colored folks." Though her friends are killed,
Carol is kept alive as the personal sex slave of two white-trash cretins
in this nasty lesson in racial intolerance from the director of Olga's
House of Shame. The 1964 murders of three civil-rights workers so
appalled the nation that Hollywood waited 24 years before tackling the
subject with 1988's Mississippi Burning. Not so with this
eager-to-offend exploitation gem, loosely based on the killings and
geared for the grindhouse crowd, which remains profoundly disturbing
today.
Storyline This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American
community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and
depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere,
as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite
this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of
those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life
north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one
prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using
racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision
of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for
their rights.
Storyline When two dim-witted petty thieves escape
from prison and ransack Mandla’s house, the young boy’s parents believe
he and his friend are to blame. Determined to prove their innocence,
Mandla and his pal set off in search of the true culprits.
Storyline Inspired by a true story, "The Father Clements Story" is about a black Chicago priest who fights the local Church hierarchy for the right to adopt a son. Confronted with the growing problem of homeless black children, Father George Clements (Louis Gossett Jr.) asks his parishioners to consider adoption. Meeting only apathy, Clements angrily claims he will adopt a child himself. The statement draws the attention of the local media and Cardinal Cody (Carroll O'Connor), Clements' superior and adversary. Cody forbids Clements to adopt, claiming it is a violation of Catholic Church Law. But the Vatican approves of Clements' actions, and he begins proceedings to adopt Joey (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a rebellious and difficult teenager. Joey's former involvement with a local gang test their relationship as they try to become father and son under the scrutiny of the Church and community.
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