Boiling Point

Hurricane Katrina

Season 1 E 5 • 03/16/2021

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.

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Los Angeles

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.
02/21/2021
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Attica

The roots of America's mass incarceration problem are traced back to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, an incident authorities whitewashed and reframed as a violent riot led by Black inmates.
02/28/2021
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Bloody Sunday

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.
03/02/2021
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Schoolhouse Door

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.
03/09/2021
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Hurricane Katrina

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.
03/16/2021
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George Floyd

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.
03/23/2021
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Extended Story - George Floyd
Boiling PointS1 E6

Civil 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
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