Eyes on the Prize

Directed by Geeta Gandbhir, episode one chronicles community activists in New York’s South Bronx and Philadelphia fighting for fair housing and healthcare at the tail end of the Carter administration and through the rise of Reaganomics and the AIDS crisis.

Directed by Samantha Knowles, episode two documents the criminal justice system profiling public defenders in Washington D.C. and local organizers in South Central Los Angeles who sound the alarm about institutional structures and policies that disproportionately affect the Black community.

Directed by Muta’Ali, episode three chronicles the controversy and community inspired by the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C. that came to be a transformative experience for many of the men who traveled in from around the nation to participate.

Directed by Rudy Valdez, episode four explores the growing environmental justice movement as local activists in West Virginia and Florida fight threats to their communities’ health and survival.

Directed by Smriti Mundhra, episode five explores the complexities of affirmative action policies and how a changing demographic landscape affected school desegregation in new ways.

Directed by Asako Gladsjo, episode six chronicles the years of America’s first Black president, when, despite hope for significant societal change, police brutality soared and a new movement under the banner #BlackLivesMatter emerged.