Black Stories

Baggage Claim

Although she has traveled all over the world, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) has yet to find a man with whom she wants to settle down.

PG-13 • Comedy, Romance • Movie (2013)

The 1619 Project

Hulu’s six-part 1619 Docuseries is an expansion of “The 1619 Project” created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine. The series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative

TVMA • Documentaries • TV Series (2023)

Kindred

As Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer, begins to settle in her new home, she finds herself being pulled back and forth in time, emerging at a nineteenth-century plantation and confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood.

TVMA • Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2022)

Grails: When Sneakers Change the Game

"Grails: When Sneakers Change the Game" follows the story of Eastside Golf and its quest to enter the world of sports fashion and sneaker culture. From humble beginnings to a deal with the top brand in the world, the founders of Eastside Golf look to create the ultimate and most sought-after shoes in the world – known in sneaker culture as "Grails."

Not Rated • Documentaries • TV Series (2022)

The Hair Tales

From Executive Producers Oprah Winfrey, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Michaela angela Davis, The Hair Tales is a dynamic celebration of Black women's identity, beauty, culture and humanity, uniquely expressed through the stories in our hair. A docu-series where 6 diverse phenomenal women – Issa Rae, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, CHIKA, Marsai Martin, Chloe Bailey and Oprah Winfrey lay their intimate hair tales on the table with Tracee Ellis Ross. Surrounded by brilliant voices of academic and cultural leaders, gifted hairdressers, and extraordinary sisters, the series presents a collage of resilience, style and purpose.

TVPG • Lifestyle & Culture, Documentaries • TV Series (2022)

Reasonable Doubt

You'll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law…until you're the one in trouble. Then you'll see her for what she is: the most brilliant and fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks the justice system at every chance she gets.

TVMA • Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2022)

Mike

From creator/screenwriter Steven Rogers and the team behind I, Tonya and showrunner Karin Gist, Executive Producer of Our Kind of People, MIKE explores the dynamic and controversial story of Mike Tyson. The 8-episode limited series explores the tumultuous ups and downs of Tyson’s boxing career and personal life - from being a beloved global athlete to a pariah and back again. Focusing the lens on Mike Tyson, the series examines class in America, race in America, fame and the power of media, misogyny, the wealth divide, the promise of the American Dream and ultimately our own role in shaping Mike's story. MIKE is an unauthorized and no-holds-barred look at the life of Mike Tyson - and it is one wild ride.

TVMA • Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2022)

Aftershock

Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth workers, and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.

TVMA • Documentaries, Black Stories • Movie (2022)

Snowfall

Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it.

TVMA • Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2017)

Beba

In this courageous, deeply human, and poetic self-portrait, Afro-Latina artist Rebeca “Beba” Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest.

R • Documentaries • Movie (2021)

Basketball and Other Things

Every baller that’s played even a minute on a professional court has achieved a level of greatness that most of us only dream of. The best lessons in life are taught on the court, by the best to ever do it. Through a series of over 100 candid interviews, “Basketball (and Other Things)” asks life’s tough questions to the greatest collection of basketball wisdom ever assembled. Listen to hall-of-famers on the court (Allen Iverson, Paul Pierce, Julius Irving) and megastars off it (Quavo, 2 Chainz), share how basketball taught

Sports, Black Stories • TV Series (2022)

Soul of a Nation Presents: X/onerated -- The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice

This special profiles Muhammad Abdul Aziz, a man who was wrongfully convicted of Malcolm X's assassination. Featuring the first TV interview with Aziz since his exoneration.

Award Shows & Events, History • TV Series (2022)

Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising

Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons of entertainment and American culture; Linsey Davis and Deborah Roberts host.

Award Shows & Events, Documentaries • TV Series (2022)

Janet Jackson.

JANET JACKSON. Lifts the lid on Janet Jackson's private life for the very first time and reveals the most intimate moments of the star ever caught on camera. The documentary details Janet's return to the world stage following a sudden break from music.

TVPG • Documentaries, Biography • TV Series (2022)

Your Attention Please

Host Craig Robinson takes us on a journey into the lives, ideas, and dreams of a diverse group of Black innovators and creators who are leaving their mark on the world.

TVPG • Documentaries, Black Stories • TV Series (2020)

Abbott Elementary

A group of dedicated, passionate teachers -- and a slightly tone-deaf principal -- find themselves thrown together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do -- even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

TVPG • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (2021)

Women of the Movement

Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal murder in the Jim Crow South. Inspired by the book “Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement”.

Drama, Black Stories • TV Series (2021)

Grown-ish

Follow Zoey Johnson as she heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood.

TV14 • Comedy, Teen • TV Series (2018)

The PJs

The PJs (short for "the projects") " takes a satirical look at the pitfalls and hidden pleasures of life in a big city housing project. In a way that is laugh-out-loud funny yet respectful, the series deals with social problems such as government inefficiency, gang war, racial inequality, drug abuse and poverty.

TV14 • Adult Animation, Comedy • TV Series (1999)

BMF

The story of how Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory formed a criminal empire in Detroit known as the Black Mafia Family.

TVMA • Legal, Drama • TV Series (2021)

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

During their annual vacation, eight married friends examine their relationships when they comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity.

TV14 • Comedy, Drama • Movie (2007)

Bloods

When tough-acting loner Maleek is paired with over- friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival.

Comedy • TV Series (2021)

Godfather of Harlem

Inspired by actual persons and events, Godfather of Harlem reimagines the story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Academy Award®- winner Forest Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control. During the brutal battle, he forms an alliance with radical preacher Malcolm X (Nigél Thatch) – catching Malcolm’s political rise in the crosshairs of social upheaval and a mob war that threatens to tear the city apart. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history. While this story is inspired by actual events, certain characters, characterizations, incidents, locations and dialogue were fictionalized or invented for purposes of dramatization. With respect to such fictionalization or invention, any similarity to the name or to the actual character or history of any person, living or dead, or any product or entity or actual incident is entirely for dramatic purpose and not intended to reflect on an actual character, history, product or entity.

TVMA • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2019)

Rel

Rel, a loving husband and father living on the West Side of Chicago, finds out his wife is having an affair, with Rel's own barber. Rel finds that his embarrassing business is known by everyone before he can even process the emotions himself. Rel jumps back into the dating pool, head first, and often finds himself the victim of his own well-intentioned hubris.

TV14 • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (2018)

The Wonder Years

The story of the Williams family during the late 1960s, all through the point of view of imaginative 12-year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections of his past spotlight the ups and downs of growing up in a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, and the friendship, laughter and lessons along the way.

TVPG • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (2022)

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