BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In 1925, a perfect love story became a national scandal fueled by the extremes of daily tabloid speculation. When Leonard Rhinelander, heir to one of New York’s most powerful families, married Alice Jones, a working-class woman whose racial identity would later become the centerpiece of a courtroom shock, their union ignited one of the most notorious trials of the twentieth century. Under pressure from his family, Leonard sought an annulment, and Alice was forced to defend not only her marriage, but her very existence, before a jury and a nation all too eager to judge.

Black and White and Read All Over revisits the Rhinelander case as it was lived, not merely reported, including family scandals revealed that had been overlooked at the time — exposing the machinery of privilege and the human cost of becoming a headline.