Boiling Point - Season 1 - TV Series | BET

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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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S1 • E1
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
40:29
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S1 • E2
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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S1 • E3
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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S1 • E4
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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S1 • E5
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
40:26
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S1 • E6
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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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.

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