Monochrome: Black, White & Blue - Season 1

First aired: 1/7/2017 3 episodes

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Episodes

1. 1762 - 1865

Aired: 1/7/2017

"The Blues", the language of the forlorn, grew from slave chants blended with many influences, proving foundational in changing the American south as slaves sought freedom, but they faced great resistance including segregation, oppression and the American Civil War.

2. 1865–1968

Aired: 1/7/2017

The intoxicating essence of New Orleans permeates this episode as it explores the era of Storyville, the struggle for Civil Rights, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

3. 1940–2015

Aired: 1/7/2017

A look at 75 years of American history, where racism reframed inequality in the guise of a "new world", where a black American became president but young black men were killed by police with little recourse, and where uprisings ensued.