Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. WHO WE ARE offers a stirring and persuasive reckoning with a subject that's as fundamental as it is highly charged.
3 day rental • PG-13 • 117 min.
"WHO WE ARE should be made required viewing in every American school as we find ourselves perched, once again, at a pivotal tipping point."
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RogerEbert.com
"Through Robinson's fervor for truth, Emily and Sarah Kunstler's WHO WE ARE chronicles how such heartaches, when observed on a personal level, remind us how knowing the unchangeable past can still improve the alterable future for the better."
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Los Angeles Times
"The simplest thing to say about SXSW Documentary Spotlight Audience Award winner WHO WE ARE is that it should be part of the standard curriculum in every school in America."
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Austin Chronicle