In a near-future world, premature Black death is an inevitability. But there is one significant shift from the present: Black folks now have the power to define the stories of their own lives on the hit television show The Death News.
Jah, a former student radical, is speeding through the universe inside a dub song. As they travel, a blue macaw urges them to relive a demonstration during which a colonial monument was toppled.
In the year 2080 and just hours after receiving a terminal diagnosis, eager to ensure survival of their culture, Aodri instructs Bena in their traditional language using American Sign Language and other gestures.
It's 100 years in the future. The last African warrior wanders around the barren continent searching for the remains of his tribe. He discovers a rock, the only evidence of a once fruitful Africa, and decides to tell his story.
In a world where calling the cops is not the only option, a veteran emergency services dispatcher leads a rookie through a training day. "Yeah, but does anything ever change?" asks the skeptical youngblood.
Gabriaela Monk, a 40-something business professional, just got fired from her job at a dating app company. The cause? A racial sensitivity seminar gone terribly wrong.
Moving to Diamond Valley, an all-Black town in 2035 Alberta, has led to an identity crisis for eight-year-old Zari: she is no longer the only Black kid at her school.
Facing the justice system alone, Adrian's future is in jeopardy. But what if there were a corporation that set out to amass Black wealth, knowledge, strength and hard work for the betterment of Black society?
It's 2045, and Crystal Hinds has a message for the NBA board. Twenty-five years ago, in the middle of a pandemic and global racial reckoning, she watched athletes boycott the sport they loved for something more important.
It's New Year's Eve 2059, the night before the long-awaited Reparations Day, and Chariott receives a mysterious call that leads her on a ride through the world outside her bubble.
Satchel Dew is the principal engineer behind a groundbreaking spacecraft that can carry humans to far-off solar systems. But in this hip-hop parable, he discovers the military has less peaceable plans in mind for his invention.
Open Your Big Black Mouth, a brand-new treatment designed to help Black women affected by racism, bigotry, microaggressions, white supremacy, exotification or unwanted hair touching, has just been rolled out.
It is 2080. A vessel carrying 500,000 refugees and led by a rich young Black man sits at Osu, off the coast of Ghana. The young man's actions bring him face to face with himself, his history and the mothers of his own native land.