One year on, Reggie Yates has come to Ferguson, a small town in America’s Bible Belt, to find out if anything has changed. Some of the worst civil disorder seen in decades has galvanized a new movement marching under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and politicized a new generation of young activists like Clifton Kinnie, who were in the streets protesting and demanding an end to police brutality. He wants to know from both black and white citizens of Ferguson if a community so polarized by the shooting of Michael Brown can come together and heal. Reggie witnesses first-hand just how the next generation of police officers are being trained at the Police Academy. But more shockingly, he discovers just how the system still discriminates against African Americans. Reggie wants to know how, in a country with an African American President, young black men are still 21 times as likely to be killed by police as white men of the same age. With the events that started in Ferguson, the country is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth – racism still runs deep in America.

Channel: BBC3

Producer: Sundog Pictures

TX: September 2015

Source: BBC press release