Yance Ford’s older brother was murdered on Long Island in 1992, at age twenty-four. Although it was known who killed him, no one was convicted. Darryl Pinckney notes in the New Yorker, “In Yance Ford’s powerful, disturbing, and very personal documentary, details are important. . . . Strong Island is the story of a black family that could not sustain the blow of racial injustice and fell apart.” Ford follows all the threads—not only those related to the murder and the resulting investigation, but also the history of his family, who had tried to do everything right—through to the present and the ongoing racism plaguing black men.