Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 117 mins

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 2022

Countries: USA

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY:

Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler

WRITTEN BY:

Jeffery Robinson

CAST INCLUDES:

Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Boasting a near-perfect 98% fresh critic score on Rotten Tomatoes Emily and Sarah Kunstler's (WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DURTIURBING THE UNIVERSE, P.O.V) documentary WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA spotlights lectures, anecdotes, interviews, and revelations as lawyer Jeffery Robinson (THE FIGHT) recounts the timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States over the past two and a half centuries. "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" (Los Angeles Times).

SYNOPSIS

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: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 117 mins

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 2022

Countries: USA

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY

Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler

WRITTEN BY

Jeffery Robinson

CAST INCLUDES

Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

"It's unlikely that any lecture documentary since "An Inconvenient Truth" has had the galvanizing potential of "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America" - and if that sounds like faint praise, it isn't meant that way."

New York Times

"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."

Los Angeles Times

"Robinson’s quasi-TED Talk is both broad-ranging and deep, covering a history that is political, legal, cultural, economic, psychological, emotional, moral and, in the end, also profoundly personal."

Washington Post