Boiling Point

One Man's Story from Inside Attica

Season 1 E 2 • 03/02/2021

Akil 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.

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Extended Story - Attica
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Akil 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.
03/19/2021
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One Man's Story from Inside Attica
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Akil 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
on BET's Boiling Point 2021.
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Extended Story - Bloody Sunday
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Lynda 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.
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Extended Story - Hurricane Katrina
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Dr. 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.
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Dr. 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.
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Extended Story - Los Angeles
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Bobby Green recalls how the voice of God compelled him to leave his house and save Reginald Denny, a man pulled from his truck and beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
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Extended Story - George Floyd
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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.
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Extended Story - Schoolhouse Door
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Professor 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.
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