Boiling Point

  • Premiered: Feb 2021
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BET
  • Tuesday at 23
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
L.A.
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 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
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 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
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 09, 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
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 16, 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
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 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 Show finale
George Floyd
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 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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