Six years after being jailed for killing Trife, Sam is released from prison. During the course of the film, it is revealed that Sam has changed dramatically and is not the person he was six years ago. He has learnt from his mistakes and is still haunted by his crime.
A struggling widow named Jada (Siena Goines) goes through life in a tough urban neighborhood while taking care of her troubled son, Jamal (Jason Weaver) and daughter, Jasmine (Jennifer Freeman).
Découvrez comment le groupe de hip-hop alternatif des Good Lifers a réussi à détourner l'emprise des gangs de Los Angels en créant une véritable communauté artistique.
Raya Green est une brillante étudiante qui suit ses cours dans une école privée. N'arrivant plus à la financer, elle est obligée de revenir dans l'établissement public du quartier défavorisé qu'elle avait fui. De retour, Raya n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : réintégrer cette école privée. Mais pour cela, il faut qu'elle trouve l'argent. Elle décide alors de s'inscrire à un concours de step-dancing, qui offre un prix de 50 000 dollars à l'équipe gagnante.
Four friends from Harlem resort to con games and armed robbery in order to make ends meet, but they find their friendship put to the test when an influential slumlord plots to gentrify their neighborhood. Now, in order to prove that they can't be bought out or pushed around by a man who thinks everyone has their price, these four young hustlers are about to carry out their most ambitious and treacherous scam to date.
Compton-native Rome (Nate Parker) is the son of Reverend Q (Cleavant Derricks) and has angst for Jewel (Lindsey Haun), the daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Capps (John Rubinstein) who lives in Beverly Hills. Using a reworked dialogue such as "deep inside I’m tender/sweeter than Splenda/and if you must know the truth/my heart's not bulletproof" and despite his father's wishes that he avoid upper-class white women, Rome meets Jewel at her sweet 16 party. They achieve love-at-first sight over bilateral rap discourse and have a quick wedding in Las Vegas. After the tragic ending befalls both teens, the fathers come to a realization that color should not distinguish humanity.
New York, 1968. La guerre du Viêt Nam fait rage, autant que celle qui oppose les nombreuses familles de la pègre new-yorkaise, dont celle bien particulière de Ellsworth « Bumpy » Johnson à Harlem. Bumpy n'est pas un parrain ordinaire : il est noir et parfois généreux (par exemple, il offre des dindes aux démunis à Thanksgiving).
Simon Ballister apprend le décès de son fils qui est policier, tué par des malfaiteurs. Il décide de le venger en tuant l'assassin et, par là même, ceux qui lui barrent le chemin.
The satirical film spoofs several recent pop cultural It Girl moments such as Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction and Ashlee Simpson's lip synching fiasco. It has also been called an African American Red Shoe Diaries.
While pulling an April Fools' Day prank on a nerdy classmate named Melvin, a group of high school friends (Missy, DeAnna, Eva, Diego, Malik, and Marlin) accidentally kill him when Marlin hits Melvin with a football, causing him to fall on and be impaled by a piece of rebar. Panicking, the group drag Melvin's body into a wooded area, and stage it to look like he was the victim of a random gang-related attack. Exactly one year later, DeAnna is stabbed to death by a hooded figure while interning at a hospital. After murdering DeAnna, the killer writes "April Fools" on a wall with her blood.