Black Lives / Black Lungs · Part III · 2026
Keep Tobacco Sacred
Keep Tobacco Sacred documents the violent corporate theft that formed the cash engine for Colonization, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and America’s First Great Enterprise—the 400-year-old commercial tobacco industry.
The film follows Indigenous elders, researchers, and young people, tracing how colonial violence attempted to destroy cultural practices—and how reclamation is not symbolic, but material, intergenerational, and urgent.