United Shades of America

Kamau explores the recent rise of the warrior cop in America while examining the two dominant mindsets of the police forces across the country: warrior versus guardian.

Kamau digs deeply into the discrimination and racism that lingers in programs like STEM. He looks at efforts to build a more inclusive workforce for our globally competitive future in technology and space.

Kamau returns to Portland to explore the emerging dynamics of the current protests, talking with the founders of BLM as well as athletes, entertainers and regular folks who have become active in the social and economic justice movement.

Kamau explores American disparity through the lens of generational wealth, digging into the forces that are actively working to keep black families from building prosperity and the possible solutions that can fix it.

Kamau examines the military, the last institution that a majority of Americans actually approve of, and yet how it is beset by the same destructive and racist forces that keep us divided as a nation.

Kamau explores the shifting ethnic make-up of the US in a celebratory (and celebrity-laced) exploration of an increasingly robust mixed-race population and the ways in which they are changing and challenging the culture.