Best Black History Documentaries
Stay Woke: 25 Moving Documentaries That Show the Intricacies of the Black Experience
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson centres around gender noncomforming activist and Stonewall veteran Marsha P. Johnson. The film showcases her efforts to support gay rights while addressing the struggles of being both a person of colour and gender noncomforming in America. It also explores Johnson's haunting and mysterious death. In 1992, her body was found floating in the Hudson River, and police ruled it a suicide. However, Marsha's family and members of the community cite evidence that Johnson was actually murdered.