Deacons for Defense 2003  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Silverman, Ossie Davis, Paul Benjamin, Gene Mack, Tyrone Benskin, Mpho Koaho, Melanie Nicholls-King, Serena Lee, Khafre Armatrading, Adam Weiner, Beau Starr
This made-for-cable-TV film was originally aired during Black History Month and focuses on events following passage of the Civil Rights Act. The African-American citizens of a Louisiana town are still considered to be second-rate citizens. The town's mill, controlled by Whites, is the major employer, and the black men are denied upward mobility while being subjected to indignities. Finally, war veteran Marcus (Forest Whitaker) fights back by forming the Deacons of Defense and Justice to help protect the people in Black neighborhoods from combative whites. When more KKK members arrive in town, war is sure to follow.
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Our America 2002 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Josh Charles, Roderick Pannell, Brandon Hammond, Vanessa Williams, Serena Lee, Irma P. Hall, Peter Paige, Mykelti Williamson, Gene Mack, Neil Crone, Chris Collins, Dan Willmott
After teenagers Lloyd Newman (Brandon Hammond) and LeAlan Jones (Roderick Pannell) are hired by NPR to work as reporters, they use past knowledge to uncover the gang that was responsible for a five-year-old boy being tossed from a 14th-story window in one of Chicago's housing projects.
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