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The dance film links interrelated histories of racism and colonial capitalism in Virginia and Puerto Rico. The film honors the spirit of resistance and liberation of Black female tobacco stemmers who worked in segregated facilities in Richmond and invokes Puerto Rican tobacco factory readers and radical activists Dominga de La Cruz Becerril and Luisa Capetillo, as inspiration for the present.

A mosquito bite decades ago leads Catherine Coleman Flowers on her life’s journey. This captivating film brings viewers into the world of Catherine Coleman Flowers, a Lowndes County, Alabama activist who became passionate about the environment when she found out that tropical diseases, like hookworm, were showing up in her community because of sewage treatment problems.

Latin for the word Blacks, Negros is an experimental social justice film depicting the young black male experience in modern-day Miami. The story follows James, 14, as he overcomes a series of traumas in order to make a difference in his neighbourhood and rediscover adolescent joy. An ultimately uplifting story about healing, hope and the power of community in Liberty City, the film perfectly highlights why environmental justice is racial justice.

Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter.

Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs is running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the controversy around public lands. Accompanied by running companions who represent diverse perspectives in what it means to be a public land owner, she assesses what is at stake if previously protected lands are reduced and if the public is largely unaware.

Four Black millennial stand-up comedians, hailing from Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Chicago, and Ohio, take the stage to “make the climate crisis funny” in front of a St. Paul’s audience who are at risk for a Hurricane Katrina-like disaster and who are currently being displaced from their homes.