Finding Justice
Docuseries exploring the stories of prominent African-American community leaders who fought injustices.
- 2019-2019
- 1 season
- BET
- Documentary
- TV-14
Docuseries exploring the stories of prominent African-American community leaders who fought injustices.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2019
Episode 1
Stand Your Ground
Sun, Mar 10, 2019 41 mins
Executive produced by Danny Garcia, Dream Hampton, and Dwayne Johnson, Finding Justice travels the country and starts with Clearwater, Florida. Following the story of a shooting that the local sheriff decided that the recently approved Stand Your Ground law could be applied.
Episode 2
Cash Bail
Sun, Mar 17, 2019 41 mins
Named after a debtors' prison and run like a vestige of slavery-era Missouri, the St. Louis jail known as the Workhouse has become the focal point for St. Louis activists. The Bail Project and ArchCity Defenders fight to shut down the Workhouse, free the innocent people trapped inside and end cash bail.
Episode 3
Voter Suppression
Sun, Mar 24, 2019 41 mins
Against the backdrop of a too-close-to-call election that could seat Stacy Abrams as America's first Black female governor, activists, journalists, and church leaders battle voter suppression tactics in Georgia and send the reverberations of the fight for political power across the nation.
Episode 4
Criminalization of Kids
Sun, Mar 31, 2019 41 mins
In Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest, most militarized school police department, the community is on the brink of taking a stand against the criminalization of kids. With the future of generations of Black and Brown children hanging in the balance, parents, teachers and student activists join forces to take on the Los Angeles Unified School District and end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Episode 5
Police Brutality
Sun, Apr 7, 2019 41 mins
As activists from across the Twin Cities unite to fight against police brutality, the first Black Police Chief in the history of Minneapolis pushes to reform his department in the wake of senseless police killings and city-wide scandal.
Episode 6
The Lead Paint Crisis
Sun, Apr 14, 2019 41 mins
To end the national silence over the lead crisis afflicting low-income communities of color, Michael K. Williams joins forces with Baltimore activists, scientists, and lead exposure survivors to show the devastating effects of lead poisoning, and takes the fight all the way to Washington D.C.
