The special brings together a mix of live performances and conversations with some of music’s biggest stars to highlight the contributions of Black Americans through jazz, gospel, hip-hop and more.

A unique window into authentic realities of Black life and dive deeper into this critical moment of racial reckoning. Each episode explores a specific theme including spirituality, Black joy, activism in sports and the racial reckoning that erupted after George Floyd's death.

Delving into the rise of Asians in Hollywood, in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Featuring interviews with actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, and Oscar-winning producer Jonathan Wang.

A singer with a once bright future falls victim to the music business at a young age. A decade later, despite an addiction and depression she rises up one more time with the help of a special friend and her God given gift of voice.

Covers six weeks of the lives of Sasha Politkovsky, a prominent TV journalist, and his family. Chronicles the events of 1990 as glasnost and perestroika lift the lid of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

Thrown into prison by the president in the world’s youngest and “most broken” nation, a child soldier Peter Biar Ajak turned Harvard graduate turned activist is torn between his young country’s democracy and his young family’s welfare. In summer 2023, it is announced that South Sudan will finally hold its first election in December 2024. Despite not yet having his status in the US, which is his only assurance of reentry and reunion with his family, Peter decides to return to his homeland. As when we started filming him 6 years ago, Peter is getting off a plane, leaving the safety of the West and landing in East Africa. This time, it is to run for President.

During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.