Synopsis
N**GGA B*TCH
Nambi keeps dying and coming back: as a young African princess who is captured and traded to the New World only to drown in the Atlantic; as a suffragette who is bludgeoned to death by her lover; and as a Black Panther shot down by a policeman’s bullet leaving the scene of a failed bombing. After each incarnation she wakes to find a man in a white coat. Is he God or the devil? Or just the hospital orderly there to deliver her meds?
Eventually, Nambi makes her way to the recreation yard where she meets Helen, the place’s only other inmate, but an orderly is stabbed and she escapes. She next finds herself in a flooded subway, then briefly at home with her lover Emma. Shortly thereafter, all her realities converge and the Man in the White Coat informs her that she is a persistent mistake and was not meant to exist at all. She encounters a mysterious little girl who keeps flitting through her many incarnations at the bottom of the sea and finally names her/Self and gains her freedom.

N*GGA B*TCH is about being on repeat and the insanity that is black womanhood: being and yet being invisible, the alternating accommodation and outrage, and downright “What the fuckery???”
In a commencement speech at Barnard, Viola Davis said, “The world is a wounded place because we are wounded.” And whether we think it’s cheesy or not, the only escape is love—of self and of others. N**GGA B*TCH is a story of grief, healing, and reinvention.

A psychology professor studying the effects of trauma on the brain receives a visit from a brother she’s never met who just flew in (he says) from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the next few days and weeks, the professor, with baggage of her own, becomes increasingly fascinated with the troubled young man even as his story keeps changing.

After her boyfriend kicks her out, Angie is rescued from throwing herself into the sea by a Man who may or may not be an angel and resolves to start over. Between her therapist, a couple in mourning for their dead son, and the hostel she calls home, Angie tries to make good but the buses don’t work, the manager keeps changing the rules, strangers accost her on the beach and her best friend Rose is on a downward slide. Then opportunity knocks and a chance encounter turns into the hope for true love. Intent on escape, Angie instigates a break from the violent Joe. In short order, the deal goes south, Rose dies, and Angie is left to ponder the existence of God.