Lawyer Jeffery Robinson spends this documentary doing what he has spent years doing in lecture halls: laying out the history of anti-Black racism in the United States in plain, sourced terms, and asking an audience to sit with the timeline rather than look away from it.
What is Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America about?
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America builds its case out of several different registers at once. Robinson's own lecture forms the spine, but the film widens that lecture with personal anecdotes, interviews and documented revelations that trace anti-Black racism across the country's history into the present day. Gwen Carr appears in the film, and archival material connects the throughline to Martin Luther King Jr. The approach is closer to a legal brief than a conventional narrative: each section adds another piece of evidence to a timeline the film wants viewers to see in full, rather than in the fragments most people encounter it in.
About the cast
Jeffery Robinson anchors the documentary as its central voice, with Gwen Carr featured among the interview subjects and archival footage of Martin Luther King Jr. woven into the historical record the film assembles. Sarah Kunstler and Emily Kunstler direct.
Context & significance
Structured as a single feature-length documentary rather than a limited series, the film runs just under two hours, giving Robinson's lecture room to build its timeline without rushing through eras. It is a 2022 American production, and its documentary billing sets expectations from the outset: this is testimony and record, not dramatization.
Watching Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America on Ktime
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America is available to watch on K-Time, where the page itself is free to read for anyone. Watching the film requires a K-Time account login, and the platform's interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora audience it primarily serves, even for English-language documentaries like this one.