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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

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

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

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 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

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