Margaret Avery

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

Hidden Figures' Taraji P. Henson is a hitwoman whose maternal instinct kicks into gear when she learns that one of her hits has left a boy orphaned.

Director Steven Spielberg tackles Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name which tells the story of an African American woman struggling through racism and domestic abuse in the 1930s South.