The title is from the detective show The Equalizer (1985). Coincidentally, Denzel Washington (Dr. Philip Chandler) would later star in the film version of The Equalizer (2014).
Dr. Chandler (Denzel Washington) organizes an anti apartheid protest at a local medical center. Denzel would go on to play South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987).