Why do drugs crime HIV poor education inferiority complexes low expectations poverty corruption poor health and underdevelopment plague people of African descent around the world Why 500 years after the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism do Africans still struggle for basic freedom Filmed in more than twenty countries across five continents 500 YEARS LATER examines the atrocities that uprooted Africans from their cultures and homeland Infused with the spirit and music of liberation it chronicles the struggle of a people who fight for the most essential human right freedom