What to Watch Next

Blackish: An American sitcom following an upper-middle-class African-American family.

 

Dear White People: A Netflix-original series featuring African-American students exploring today’s “post-racial” society at Winchester University, a predominantly white Ivy League college.

 

Straight Outta Compton: A biographical drama narrating the career of N.W.A., a gangsta rap group founded in Compton, California in 1986.

 

Insecure: An HBO-original series depicting exploring black womanhood through the lens of two, African-American women in their late twenties.

 

Detroit: A historical drama centered around The Algiers Motel Incident in 1967, which left three dead and nine brutally beaten, spurring one of the largest citizen uprisings in United States history.

 

Fruitvale Station: A biographical drama portraying the events leading up to the murder of Oscar Grant, an unarmed African-American man, in Oakland, California in 2009.

 

Selma: A historical drama following the events leading up to and following the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March during the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Atlanta: Atlanta is a camera, semi-autobiographical comedy-drama series created by and starring Donald Glover. The series is about two cousins navigating their way in the Atlanta rap scene in an effort to improve their lives and the lives of their families.

 

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