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A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her She knows, but accepts anyway Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that shell soon get another note, and

A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African American film industry

A black Harvard graduate confronts racism

A young man named Jean in post World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith He proposes to her, but realizes that shes involved in the rackets and wont leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where

A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman whos being menaced by a local crime boss He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their trou

Abandoned by her fiance, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths

A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long estranged identical twin brother

Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell