Resistance

An iconic image of a Black teenager drinking at a whites only water fountain inspired us to celebrate daring people who push through their fear, go up against the odds and look damn good doing it.

In the low country of South Carolina the Gullah Geechee are engaged in a fight to preserve their land and determine their destiny.

It’s been nine months since protests kicked off in New York City. Has anything changed?

All around the world, museums are filled with stolen artifacts. A man named Mwazulu Diyabanza is doing something about it.

Kelly never saw herself as a ride or die. But that all changed when her partner Keith Davis Jr. was locked up.

Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.’s award winning story Borders Between Us. It’s about his mother’s journey to America and how Saidu tried to make sense of their relationship years after her death.

NYC activist John Acosta came out this summer to fight alongside his chosen family. But when they disagreed on how to make change, things started to fall apart.

We all know about the campaigns to tear down statues of Columbus and Lee, but what about the remnants of slavery we walk past every day and don't even realize are there?

The #EndSARS movement started as a way to bring an end to police brutality in Nigeria. But young Nigerians know that to change policing, they have to change the whole country.

The only Black man in Harvard, Nebraska puts on the first Black Lives Matter protest the town has ever seen. But will anybody show up?

What's it like when it's just you against the largest police department in the country?

When the protests kicked off in New York City this summer, 22 year old Chi Osse joined them right away. And when he went out, what he saw changed the trajectory of his life.

Resistance is a show about refusing to accept things as they are. Stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change. Coming October 14th.