In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track.

A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.