United Shades of America

- Season 7

(2022)

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Appalachians are generally pictured as White working class Americans. A largely unknown population of Black Americans have called it home since the time of the conquistadors and contributed to American culture in overlooked ways.

While sports can be exhilarating, they come with intensity and pressure that can compromise athletes' mental health; Kamau heads to the legendary sports town of Boston to find out how athletes are speaking up and leading change.

Years of drought and extreme heat waves in California have seen wildfires grow in frequency, intensity and size; the crisis is fuelled by mismanagement of land, corporate greed and climate change.

A largely unknown population of Black Americans have called Appalachia home since the time of the conquistadors and contributed to American culture in overlooked ways.

Kamau travels to the Black Hills of South Dakota, known for millennia to Native Americans as "the heart of everything that is"; Native leaders explain the Landback Campaign and demand the United States honor its treaties and return all public lands.

Encouraged by the state, mainlanders flock to Hawaii during the pandemic; native Hawaiians now beg people to stop visiting and moving to Hawaii, where the rising cost of living makes it the most expensive state in the country.