The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

Sunny is married to Ernie and their marriage is on the rocks. One evening drunken Ernie and Dave have a fight which results in Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night.

An anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Longing to have a baby, a sterile 1930s Bostonian hires a man to impregnate his wife.

Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.