Featuring interviews and archival footage, Boiling Point explores systemic racism across American history, and the connection between Black America's past and present civil rights battles.
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- 05:08Extended Story - Schoolhouse DoorExclusiveS1Professor Michael Eric Dyson explains how Black students like Autherine Lucy, James Meredith and the Little Rock Nine challenged school segregation in the South despite fierce opposition.03/30/2022
- 06:56Extended Story - George FloydExclusiveS1Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong explains her journey to becoming a social justice activist and how overreliance on law enforcement has negatively impacted Black communities.03/30/2021
- 07:12Extended Story - Hurricane KatrinaExclusiveS1Dr. Eboni Price-Haywood reflects on her father's cancer diagnosis shaping her medical career and the life-threatening circumstances patients faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.03/19/2021
- 07:02Extended Story - Bloody SundayHighlightS1Lynda Blackmon-Lowery, who was the youngest person to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, in 1965, reflects on her experience fighting for civil rights at the age of 14.03/05/2021
- 04:17One Man's Story from Inside AtticaExclusiveS1Akil Shakur, who was formerly incarcerated at Attica Correctional Facility, describes the prison's inhumane conditions and recounts the events leading up to the 1971 uprising.03/02/2021
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Boiling Point investigates instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.