Soledad meets a grandmother who's fighting to get a mountain of toxic shingles removed from the lot behind her house. In the process, she uncovers a widespread yet rarely-talked-about problem in Dallas, Texas: environmental racism.
Soledad visits the most incarcerated zip code in America to meet a teen who's seen friends and family go to prison and is struggling to break the cycle. She quickly discovers that North Nashville is creating an insidious school-to-prison pipeline.
Soledad travels to the Carolina coast where descendants of slaves are waging the battle of their lives against archaic laws and policies — with racist loopholes — that threaten to steal their ancestral lands.
Soledad heads to Chicago — and into the national conversation on police reform — to meet the frontline stakeholders behind the community self-policing and anti-police union movements who could change the trajectory of law enforcement in America.
Soledad travels to Norfolk, Virginia, which remains segregated and has a history of displacing black people, to meet residents of Tidewater Gardens public housing community who are being forced to vacate their homes.
Soledad travels to Mississippi -- home to the highest infant mortality rate in the nation -- to meet some of the Black mothers caught in a mortality crisis fueled by systemic racism.
Soledad O'Brien
Host
Jo Honig
Producer
Randy Ferrell
