United Shades Of America

Re-examining the national and international hate rhetoric in the current political era and the damaging systemic applications of white supremacy.

W. Kamau Bell heads to Oklahoma to explore how politics and economic disparity has impacted family and independent farmers.

W. Kamau Bell explores inequities in the public education system through two very different school districts near Cleveland, Ohio.

W. Kamau Bell explores working America today where the fastest-growing category of new jobs is gig work.

Kamau heads to New Orleans to explore the topic of reparations. He learns that while there is a popular assumption that reparations means doling out a check, many scholars and activists believe the first step is an unflinching acknowledgement of the scale and scope of slavery and the systemic oppression that followed with Jim Crow laws, redlining and Black Codes.

W. Kamau Bell heads to South Florida, home of the largest number of Venezuelans in the United States, to understand the crisis that led them to seek asylum.

W. Kamau Bell visits Los Angeles to explore the homelessness crisis.

W. Kamau Bell visits New York City to meet with Iranian immigrants to learn about their American experience.