The Long Shadow (2017)

The Long Shadow: Directed by Frances Causey, Maureen Gosling. With John Adams, Karen Alexander, Jody Allen, Amiri Baraka. When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US, what she discovered was that the politics of slavery didn’t end with the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the United States’ original sin, The Long Shadow traces slavery’s history from America’s founding up through its insidious ties to racism today.

“This is a compelling and honest journey into Americau0026#39;s past by a southern white film-maker who shares her thoughts and feelings about white privilege and the u0026quot;shadowu0026quot; that has been cast upon America from the evils of the enslavement of Africans, including how Wall Street was designed to facilitate the slave trade and much more. This film should be a part of the curriculum of every American history class and taught in all institutions of influence. It is a gift – for a person such as Frances Causey – to share her life as a genesis to discuss the everlasting effects of two examples of state-sponsored institutional racism (slavery and Jim Crow) on modern American life and how the descendants of enslaved Africans are treated today.”