Over the course of 50 episodes, we're going to learn about Black American History. Clint Smith will to teach you about the experience of Black people in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people who arrived at Jamestown all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | 2021-05-07 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Slavery in the American Colonies | 2021-05-14 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Elizabeth Key | 2021-05-22 | 8 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Slave codes | 2021-05-29 | 9 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Germantown Petition Against Slavery | 2021-06-05 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Stono Rebellion | 2021-06-12 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Phillis Wheatley | 2021-06-19 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The American Revolution | 2021-07-03 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Fugitive Slave Clause | 2021-07-10 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 | 2021-07-23 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Women's Experience Under Slavery | 2021-07-30 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811 | 2021-08-07 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Rise of Cotton | 2021-08-14 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Maria Stewart | 2021-08-20 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | The Underground Railroad | 2021-08-27 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Dred Scott Decision | 2021-09-04 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | Frederick Douglass | 2021-09-10 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Black Americans in the Civil War | 2021-09-17 | 15 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Reconstruction | 2021-09-24 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Ida B. Wells | 2021-10-08 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation | 2021-10-15 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois | 2021-10-23 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Black Women's Club Movement | 2021-10-29 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Great Migration | 2021-11-06 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Red Summer of 1919 | 2021-11-12 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance | 2021-11-19 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance | 2021-12-04 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | The Great Depression | 2021-12-11 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | The Tuskegee Experiment | 2021-12-24 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Zora Neale Hurston | 2022-01-08 | 11 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | World War II | 2022-01-15 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington | 2022-01-28 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | School Segregation and Brown v Board | 2022-02-11 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | Emmett Till | 2022-03-11 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | The Montgomery Bus Boycott | 2022-03-25 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Martin Luther King, Jr | 2022-04-08 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | Student Civil Rights Activism | 2022-04-23 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power | 2022-05-11 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | The Black Panther Party | 2022-05-25 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | Women and the Black Power Movement | 2022-06-14 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion | 2022-06-30 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | The War on Drugs | 2022-07-13 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 43 | Shirley Chisholm | 2022-07-27 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 44 | Jesse Jackson | 2022-08-09 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 45 | Los Angeles Uprisings | 2022-08-26 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 46 | Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas | 2022-09-07 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 47 | Rap and Hip Hop | 2022-09-20 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 48 | Toni Morrison | 2022-10-07 | 13 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 49 | Hurricane Katrina | 2022-10-19 | 14 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 50 | Barack Obama | 2022-11-03 | 15 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 51 | Black Lives Matter | 2022-11-10 | 14 min |
| Production | John Green | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hank Green | Executive Producer |
