“13th”

Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary looks into the history of systemic racism and racial inequality in America following the abolishment of slavery — except as punishment — with the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. The Netflix Original focuses particularly on how the prison system offered a substitute for slavery.

Watch: Youtube

“America to Me”

An important and engrossing limited docuseries following students (and their parents) and staff at a high school just outside Chicago. One of the points of the ten-episode series is to recognize the need for racial equity rather than equality, the issue being that not all individuals or groups of people should be treated the same way. Here, of course, it’s primarily applied to the education system.

Watch: Starz

“Blindspotting”

An Oakland-based mover who, while attempting to get through his final days of probation without any trouble, witnesses a White police officer kill a Black man.

Watch: Amazon