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500 YEARS LATER
Until lions tell their story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.


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SUMMARY:
From the onset of the African Holocaust of enslavement and colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedoms.

STARRING: Bill Cosby (The Cosby Show, Ghost Dad) , Dr. Maulana Karenga, Amiri Baraka, Paul Robeson, Jr., Nelson George, and more.
FROM CODE BLACK ENTERTAINMENT, 2005
DOCUMENTARY, 116 minutes


DETAILED SYNOPSIS:
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.

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