第一季主要讲述巴尔的摩市警察对巴克斯戴尔贩毒集团的调查。
调查全因警探吉米·麦克纳提而起。在对迪安吉拉·巴克斯戴尔的庭审中，关键证人临时翻供，使得迪安吉拉成功脱罪。庭后，麦克纳提向法官丹尼尔·费兰透露，目击证人可能是受到被告的舅舅——伊旺·巴克斯戴尔手下人的威胁才被迫改了口，因为他在庭审现场看到了伊旺的副手斯丁格·贝尔以及其他几名团伙成员。麦克纳提还告诉费兰法官，巴克斯戴尔团伙涉嫌大宗毒品交易以及多宗谋杀悬案，但没有人调查他们的犯罪行径。
费兰法官于是向警察局高层抱怨，令高层倍感尴尬，于是他们责令组建一支专案组对巴克斯戴尔进行调查。但是高层并非真心想调查该案，而只是为了敷衍法官。一场博弈在希望侦办此案的警官与阻挠侦查的上司间展开，而专案组的指挥官塞德里克·丹尼尔斯则夹在中间，进退两难。
同时，巴克斯戴尔团伙内部也有矛盾。另外他们同以抢劫毒贩为生的奥马·利特间的争斗，造成了多人死伤，这进一步引起了警方关注。在此期间，迪安吉拉因自己的犯罪生活以及由此对他人的影响倍感良心不安。
警察展开街头抓捕，并希望能从街头毒贩瓦伦斯那里得到线索，但都没有多少进展。最终专案组开始采用电子监听设备，对团伙成员使用的公用电话和呼机进行监控。但却导致调查进入上层划定的禁区，触及政治献金等问题[151][152]。伊旺手下的一位小头目被另一队警察逮捕后，上司要求就此结案。基玛·格雷戈斯警探在行动中受伤[149][150]，令其他警官情绪激动，结果打草惊蛇。巴克斯戴尔团伙因此怀疑自己正受到警方调查，开始着手清除所有可疑人员，并弃用公用电话和呼机。
在斯丁格·贝尔的授意下，瓦伦斯被儿时伙伴博迪和普特射杀。迪安吉拉在为舅舅转移大量毒品时被抓，当得知瓦伦斯的死讯后，他决定供出舅舅和斯丁格。但其母劝导他要以家族事业为重。最终，专案组对伊旺从轻发落，他的手下威毕·布瑞斯则为大部分谋杀指控背黑锅，其中有一些甚至并不是威毕所为。斯丁格逃过起诉，继续运作巴克斯戴尔的犯罪王国。由于违抗上司命令，丹尼尔斯和麦克纳提都被调动到冷衙门。

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it’s core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

　　获得奥斯卡最佳女配角奖的演员雷吉娜·金将执导电影《迈阿密的一夜》（ One Night in Miami），改编自肯普·鲍尔斯处女剧作的舞台剧。现在肯普·鲍尔斯已经将原本的舞台剧剧本改写成了电影剧本。故事发生在1964年2月25日的夜晚，年轻的卡修斯·克莱击败了桑尼·利斯顿成为世界重量级拳击冠军，却因种族隔离法律无法留在迈阿密的岛上，只能在市郊的汉普顿旅馆与三个朋友激进分子马尔科姆·艾克斯、歌手山姆·库克和足球明星吉姆·布朗共同庆祝和过夜。

20世纪20 年代，在芝加哥的一场午后录音中，乐队成员们正在等待开拓性的表演者、传奇的“蓝调之母”玛·雷尼（奥斯卡金像奖得主维奥拉·戴维斯饰），其间气氛变得愈发紧张。录音进行到后期时，无畏又脾气火爆的玛和其白人经纪人及制作人就她的音乐控制权展开了一场意志的较量。雄心勃勃的小号手列维（查德维克·博斯曼饰）非常欣赏玛的女朋友，并决心在音乐行业中占有一席之地，当乐队在工作室幽闭的排演室中等待时，他促使乐手们爆出揭露真相的故事，这将永远改变他们的生活。
《蓝调天后》根据两次普利策奖得主奥古斯特·威尔逊的戏剧改编而成，歌颂了蓝调的变革力量以及那些拒绝让社会偏见左右自己价值的艺术家。该电影由乔治·乌尔夫执导，鲁本·桑地亚哥-哈德森进行剧本改编，凭借《藩篱》荣获奥斯卡奖提名的丹泽尔·华盛顿和托德·布莱克担任制片人。科尔曼·多明戈、格林·特鲁曼、迈克尔·波茨、泰勒·佩姬、杜山·布朗担任联合主演，艾美奖得主布兰福德·马萨利斯进行配乐。

《黑豹 Black Panther》的Letitia Wright及《星球大战 Star Wars》新三部曲演员John Boyega加盟BBC剧《细斧 Small Axe》，这部剧已获Amazon购下美国点播权。 这部6集剧会讲述5个不同的故事，背景设置在60-80年代的伦敦西印度社区。剧集标题来自牙买加谚语「If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.」，意指即使是微弱的异议声，仍然可以挑战强权一方。 其余演员包括Malachi Kirby﹑Shaun Parkes﹑Rochenda Sandall﹑Alex Jennings 及Jack Lowden。

Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil War, Herera's owners fled to Havana, taking three of her small children with them. Beyond Freedom's Reach is the true story of one woman's quest to rescue her children from bondage.
In a gripping, meticulously researched account, Adam Rothman lays bare the mayhem of emancipation during and after the Civil War. Just how far the rights of freed slaves extended was unclear to black and white people alike, and so when Mary De Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865 to visit friends, she was surprised to find herself taken into custody as a kidnapper. The case of Rose Herera's abducted children made its way through New Orleans' courts, igniting a custody battle that revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.
Rose Herera's perseverance brought her children's plight to the attention of members of the U.S. Senate and State Department, who turned a domestic conflict into an international scandal. Beyond Freedom's Reach is an unforgettable human drama and a poignant reflection on the tangled politics of slavery and the hazards faced by so many Americans on the hard road to freedom.

布彻尔、休伊和小组成员慌不择路，他们一方面逃避法律制裁，另一方面又努力反击超级英雄。与此同时，超级英雄管理公司沃特趁着超级恶人造成的恐慌大捞一笔。另外，一个新超级英雄“风暴”改变了公司形象，并挑战了地位早已经不太牢固的祖国人。

一个名叫雷肖恩的年轻的黑人伊拉克战争老兵发现自己在新奥尔良特警队的摊牌，并试图通过与一个同情他的军官的方式摆脱这种情况。

98岁的陈玉平（Grace Lee Boggs）是一位生活在底特律的作家、倡权者和哲学家。这是一部关于她的思想、倡权行动和生活的纪录片《美国革命：陈玉平的演进》（American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs）。
陈玉平出生于1915年，父母是移民，经营中餐馆。陈玉平从小生活舒适，但感到社会需要变革。她毕业于伯纳德学院，后在布林莫尔学院攻读哲学，1940年获得博士学位。由于少数族裔在当时美国社会的境遇，毕业后，她在芝加哥大学的哲学图书馆谋得一份低薪工作。她在租住的地区无意中见到非裔市民抗议，从此关注和参与非裔美国人争取平等权利的民权运动。
后来，她到有大量汽车工人的底特律，和汽车制造工人和工人权益倡权人士James Boggs结婚。陈玉平和新婚丈夫度蜜月时，不得不在车里过夜，因为当时的种族隔离法令她的非裔新婚丈夫无法入住汽车旅馆。她成了非裔社区的一分子，参与当地的民权运动。
陈玉平的思想深受黑格尔的辩证法和马克思的社会发展理论的影响。她的思想不断地演变，如今，她倡导非暴力，在家门口的草坪上放着“不要战争”的牌子。她认为，不应该将希望寄托在领导人身上，变化应该从自身开始。年届高龄，她还组织“底特律暑假” 和“社区花园”项目，在一个衰落的城市里致力于社区的重建。

迈尔肯（丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）出生于一个黑白通婚的家庭，其父是黑人牧师，其母是无偏见的白人。但是当时，美国种族矛盾激化，3K党经常骚扰他家，在他的幼小心灵中种下了复仇的种子。迈尔肯长大后，混迹于街巷酒吧之中，甚至染上了毒品、偷盗等恶习。一次偶然的机会，迈尔肯与白人女子索菲亚相遇，但这段爱情因种族偏见而夭折。迈尔肯因犯罪锒铛入狱，正当他处于困境之时，一位黑人教徒引领他皈依了伊斯兰教，这也成为他人生的转捩点。他通过阅读大量书籍，逐渐了解了种族歧视的文化根源，并多次在公开场合宣扬黑人要独立、对白人复仇的激进主张，引起轩然大波。迈尔肯成为很多人的眼中钉，甚至遭遇了背叛，引来了灭顶之灾……

In 1964, despite the best efforts of local civil rights activists, Mississippi remained virulently committed to segregation, underscored by the systematic exclusion of African Americans from the political process. In response, Robert Moses of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a campaign to bring a thousand volunteers—primarily enthusiastic young white supporters—to the state to encourage voter registration, provide much-needed education, and convene a more representative delegation to attend the Democratic National Convention.
Veteran director Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival) captures the volatile months of that summer through remarkable period footage and the firsthand testimonies of volunteers who were transformed by their time in Mississippi. With the Supreme Court recently striking down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, Nelson's film is a potent reminder of the sacrifices made half a century ago to ensure civil rights for all and the vigilance needed to protect what they accomplished. - B.T.

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

《马歇尔》根据美国联邦最高法院第一位黑人法官瑟古德·马歇尔的真实故事改编。
影片讲述了1941年瑟古德·马歇尔和一名白人律师通力合作，为一名被指控强奸白人的黑人司机辩护的故事。两位充满正义感、肤色不同的律师，从互不认识，到心心相惜，再到密切合作，共同厘清案情并确保案件最后得到了公正的审判。

In 1967, this revolutionary work exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 25 years after it was first published.

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the “yellow peril” to “model minorities”—peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values—in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country’s aspirations to world leadership.
Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders.
By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.

在为感恩节编织辫子后回到家，一个无辜而手无寸铁的黑人Akai Gurley在纽约东区NYCHA粉红之屋的黑暗楼梯间被枪杀。警官彼得·梁（Peter Liang）和他的搭档肖恩·兰道（Shaun Landau）站在上面的十四级台阶上，当他们听到“快速的声音”时正在建筑物的楼梯上巡逻。彼得的“意外释放”引发了一场充满感情的法律斗争，因为两个有色人种发现自己在法律眼中充满了对不公正，不平等和歧视的困惑。
尽管仅在2014年，据报在美国就有1,059人被警察枪杀，但彼得是自2005年以来第一位被控犯有过失杀人罪的纽约警察局官员。厄休拉·梁（中文名梁适）(Ursula Liang，两人没有亲戚关系)迅速穿过喧嚣和媒体的狂热，去寻找故事中缺失的东西。成千上万的华裔美国人通过微信和Facebook动员起来，在布鲁克林大桥上举行游行，挥舞美国国旗，希望从警察那里获得对彼得的支持。与此同时，一个多种族的活动人士联盟支持格利家族，并寻找对阿凯的悲剧性死亡负责的人

奇伦（艾什顿·桑德斯 Ashton Sanders 饰）的母亲宝拉（娜奥米·哈里斯 Naomie Harris 饰）吸毒成瘾根本无心照顾孩子，奇伦从小在孤独中长大，因为过于瘦小的身材而时常遭到周围人的欺侮和作弄。一次偶然中，奇伦结识了毒贩胡安（马赫沙拉·阿里 Maher shala Ali 饰），从此，胡安和其女友特蕾莎（加奈儿·梦奈 Janelle Monae 饰）的住处成为了奇伦的第二个家。凯文（贾雷尔·杰罗姆 Jharrel Jerome 饰）是奇伦唯一的朋友，随着时间的推移，两人之间的感情渐渐超越了友谊。然而，为了隐藏自己的性取向，凯文不得不在同伴的怂恿下对奇伦大打出手，之后，两人再也没有见过面。一晃眼多年过去，奇伦忽然接到了凯文打来的电话，两人终于决定正视各自心中真正的感情。

“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,” among other things an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of “showing the country as it really is.” Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled by Goran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era.

荣获奥斯卡金像奖的斯派克·李为我们带来了全新作品，这个故事讲述了四个非裔美国退伍军人返回越南的故事。他们前去寻找死去的队长（查德维克·博斯曼饰演）的遗体和埋藏的宝藏。在对抗人与自然的力量的同时，我们的英雄们还要面对越南战争中的残暴行径所带来的持久破坏。