Friday October 16— Juneteenth film festival opens, benefitting United Negro College Fund (UNCF) at Emagine Theatre in Royal Oak. Runs through Thursday, October 22.

• American History X (1998), starring Edward Norton: “A former Neo-Nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.”
• Blindspotting (2018), starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal: “While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.”
• The Color Purple (1985), starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey: “A Black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others for four decades.”
• The Defiant Ones (1958), starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis: “Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.”
• Do the Right Thing (1989), starring Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee: “On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesand section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.”
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, and Katherine Hepburn: “A couple’s attitudes are changed when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.”
• The Hurricane (1999), starring Denzel Washington: “The story of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.”
• I Am Not Your Negro (2017), starring Samuel L Jackson: “Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.”
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), starring Kiki Layne and Stephan James: “A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.”
• Imitation of Life (1934), starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, and Rochelle Hudson: “A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.”
• In the Heat of the Night (1967), starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oats, and Lee Grant: “A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.”
• Whose Streets? (2017), starring Lezley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr: “An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.”

See Emagine Entertainment website for showtimes and to purchase tickets at $10.00 per seat.

This event was re-scheduled from last summer, due to COVID-19.