Dramaet ‘One Night in Miami’ er historien om et fiktivt møde mellem ikonerne Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown og Sam Cooke på et hotel i Miami i 1964, hvor de sammen bl.a. diskuterer deres roller i borgerrettighedsbevægelsen og den kulturelle omvæltning i 1960’erne.
Aktivisten Bayard Rustin bliver mødt med racisme og homofobi i sit arbejde med at ændre borgerrettighederne gennem marchen mod Washington i 1963.
Filmen 'Retfærdighed for Emmett Till' bygger den virkelige historie om Emmett Till. Dramaet udspiller sig i 1955, hvor den 14-årige afroamerikanske dreng Emmett Till bliver bortført, tortureret og lynchet i Mississippi. Filmens handling følger Emmetts mor, der forsøger at få de ansvarlige stillet for retten efter hans død. På rollelisten finder man bl.a. Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple), Sean Patrick Thomas (The Curse of La Llorona) og Frankie Faison (Coming to America, Do the Right Thing)
Lee Jun-fan, bedre kendt som Bruce Lee, er en af historiens største kampsportseksperter. En legende, der dør, under tragiske omstændigheder, blot 32 år gammel. Her dykker vi ned i historien bag den hårdtslående stjerne - fra tiden som børne-skuespiller i Hong-kong, hans drømme, tilbagevenden til USA, og hvordan han måtte kæmpe for at finde roller i Hollywood på grund af racisme.
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism in the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, the rise of the far-right in the early 21st century; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.
A limited series focusing on Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal murder in the Jim Crow South.
An inside look at the changing role of athletes in our fraught cultural and political environment, through the lens of the NBA.
A landmark four-part series exploring segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Lynchings and beatings by night. Demeaning treatment by day. And a life of crushing subordination for Southern blacks that was maintained by white supremacist laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." It was a brutal and oppressive era in American history, but during this time, large numbers of African Americans and a corps of influential black leaders bravely fought against the status quo, amazingly acquiring for African Americans the opportunities of education, business, land ownership, and a true spirit of community.
