Joe Brewster

Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.

Psychiatrist Malcolm (de Bankole) is trying to raise his middle-class family via his struggling private practice. Invited by his doctor-sponsor Atong (Peter Frances James) to participate in a medical program in a crime-ridden Brooklyn precinct dubbed "The Killing Zone," Malcolm reacts to Atong's murder by pursuing the pint-sized killer (Rony Clayton) with a vengeance the film doesn't prepare viewers for. His intertwined memories of his boyhood suggest the mind at work, but in arbitrary terms.

A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.