Boiling Point (2021)
Investigating instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.
Boiling Point: Season 1 - 6 Episode s
1x1 - Los Angeles
February 21, 2021
The 1992 L.A. riots that erupted after the officers on trial for beating Rodney King were acquitted are analyzed and compared to recent social injustices.
1x2 - Attica
February 28, 2021
The roots of America's mass incarceration problem are traced back to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, an incident authorities whitewashed and re-framed as a violent riot led by Black inmates.
1x3 - Bloody Sunday
March 9, 2021
John Lewis and other civil rights activists faced down police on a Selma, AL, bridge in a violent clash that galvanized the public and led to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1x4 - Schoolhouse Door
March 14, 2021
Alabama Governor George Wallace's attempt to bar two Black students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963 is examined and compared to the segregation barriers that still endure
1x5 - Hurricane Katrina
March 23, 2021
Environmental racism, like the federal government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina, has fueled disparities in Black communities and left them vulnerable to COVID-19.
1x6 - George Floyd
March 30, 2021
The murders of George Floyd, Michael Brown and other victims of excessive force shined a light on police brutality and sparked an important social justice movement around the world.
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