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United Shades of America Season 5 Episodes

8 Episodes 2020 - 2020

Episode 1

Where Do We Even Start With White Supremacy?

Sun, Jul 19, 2020 30 mins

W. Kamau Bell heads to Pittsburgh to look at the damaging systemic applications of white supremacy.

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Episode 2

All-American Family Farms

Sun, Jul 26, 2020 30 mins

W. Kamau Bell heads to Oklahoma to see how politics and economic disparity has impacted farmers.

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Episode 3

Going to Public School

Sun, Aug 2, 2020 30 mins

A look into the public education system of two contrasting school districts in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Episode 4

The Gig Economy

Sun, Aug 9, 2020 30 mins

Across the United States, the fastest-growing category of new jobs is gig work, spurred on by tech companies and their never-ending stream of apps; low and uncertain incomes have replaced benefits.

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Episode 5

The Time for Reparations

Sun, Aug 16, 2020 30 mins

W. Kamau Bell heads to New Orleans to explore the topic of reparations.

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Episode 6

Venezuelans in Florida

Sun, Aug 23, 2020 30 mins

W. Kamau Bell heads to South Florida, home of the largest number of Venezuelans in the U.S., to understand the crisis that led them to seek asylum.

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Episode 7

Homeless Crisis in La

Sun, Aug 30, 2020 30 mins

Kamau spends time on LA's notorious Skid Row. This large area of downtown LA is the epicenter of the nation's devastating housing crisis and home to a community of thousands of houseless individuals whose tents have become the marker of failed policy.

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Episode 8

Iranian-Americans in Ny

Sun, Aug 30, 2020 30 mins

Within the conventional American imagination, Iran is too often associated with little that is good: the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iran hostage crisis, and its nuclear program. But the United States and Iran are as connected as they are oppositional.

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