Thomas Jefferson Byrd

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

An anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.

A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Trouble erupts when a happily married couple bring in a third party to spice things up.

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad. But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g...