BET JOINS FORCES WITH EMMY AWARD-WINNING
JOURNALIST SOLEDAD O’BRIEN TO LAUNCH “DISRUPT & DISMANTLE,” A
NEW SIX-PART INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY SERIES ABOUT THE RECURRING
INJUSTICE BLACK PEOPLE FACE IN AMERICA AND HOW WE CAN RALLY OUR
COMMUNITY TO AFFECT POSITIVE CHANGE
FROM THE SELMA MARCH FOR VOTING RIGHTS TO
THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD AND THE PRESENT-DAY BLACK LIVES MATTER
MOVEMENT, BET IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CBS NEWS EXAMINES PIVOTAL MOMENTS
IN HISTORY THAT REFLECT BLACK AMERICA’S LONGSTANDING FIGHT FOR
RACIAL EQUALITY IN A NEW SIX-PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES “BOILING
POINT”
“DISRUPT & DISMANTLE” AND “BOILING
POINT” PREMIERE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 STARTING AT 8 PM ET/PT
#BoilingPointBET
#DisruptAndDismantle
BET debuts two new projects during Black History Month under its
media-focused initiative “Content For Change,” “BET and CBS News
Present: Boiling Point” and investigative documentary series
“Disrupt & Dismantle” with award-winning journalist,
speaker, author, and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien.
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Soledad O’Brien’s critically acclaimed 2011 series Black
in America took a long, hard look at the challenges faced by Black
people in our country. A decade later, the challenges continue to
manifest in our everyday lives, and O’Brien is back to
explore immediate action items that need to be accomplished to make
a change NOW with the new BET original series “Disrupt &
Dismantle.” Airing on the same night, “Boiling Point”
will explore Black America’s longstanding struggle for racial
justice and equality through CBS News’ archival content, original
interviews and never-before-seen footage of dramatic flashpoints in
history – including George Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,
Bloody Sunday in Selma, the Attica Prison Uprising, L.A. Riots,
Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the killing of George Floyd and
beyond. Each event gripped the nation and motivated Black Americans
to fight for change. “Boiling Point” and “Disrupt &
Dismantle,” debut Sunday, February 21, starting at 8
PM ET/PT, with new installments airing every Sunday on BET and
BET Her.
“Boiling Point” premieres Sunday,
February 21 at 8 PM ET/PT
Have we come to a moment of reckoning, an overdue awakening on
systemic racism? Sparked by the horrific death of George Floyd,
protesters took to the streets across the nation, demanding
accountability and change in policing. Yet, the current movements
against police brutality, voter suppression, segregated schools,
environmental racism and mass incarceration unfortunately are not
new. For decades, Black Americans have been fighting for America to
live up to its ideals. This six-part series, “Boiling
Point,” will explore these powerful through lines that bridge
our country’s past and present with each episode exploring dramatic
flashpoints in American history – George Wallace’s Stand in the
Schoolhouse Door, Bloody Sunday in Selma, the Attica Prison
Uprising, L.A. Riots, Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the
killing of George Floyd. These events set the stage for the current
civil rights battles of today.
Through the use of original interviews and compelling archival
footage, “Boiling Point” will show how far Black Americans
have come and the battle lines that remain today, while
acknowledging the brave everyday American heroes, past and present
who have fought for progress. Each hour-long episode will be driven
by never-before-seen footage drawn from the unparalleled CBS News
archives. Along this journey, the viewer will also witness the
evolution of television journalism in covering civil rights
stories, including the rise of the evening news, the dawn of the
home movie/caught-on-tape era and finally, the cellphone
camera/social media revolution. The special will feature
first-person witnesses and participants, family, reporters on the
scene, thought leaders, legislators and current activists including
Andrew Young, journalist Wesley Lowery, Professor
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones,
Professor Carol Anderson, Rev. Raymond Scott, Professor
Ibram X. Kendi, Los Angeles District Attorney George
Gascon, Professor Jody Armour, Professor Marc Lamont
Hill, activist LaTosha Brown, Professor Michael Eric
Dyson, retired Lt. General Russel Honoré and others.
“BET and CBS News Present: Boiling Point,” will
hyper-focus on the below six life-changing moments for Black
Americans:
- L.A. Riots: The acquittal of four officers in the Rodney
King beating trial that lit a firestorm of unrest and rang the
alarm on a troubling history of excessive force by police
(1992)
- Bloody Sunday: The assault on civil rights marchers in
Selma, Alabama that galvanized public opinion and mobilized
Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Attica: The violent inmate uprising that exposed a
broken system of incarceration in America (1971)
- Hurricane Katrina: The natural disaster that sparked
questions and a bitter uproar about how race and class may have
influenced the government’s response to the crisis (2005)
- Stand in the Schoolhouse Door: The defiant attempt by
Governor Wallace to stop Black students from enrolling at the
University of Alabama that laid bare divisions over desegregation
(1963)
- George Floyd: The terrible and tragic killing of George
Floyd that sparked the largest wave of protests in American
history, strengthening long-standing calls for greater police
accountability and improving the relationship between police and
the communities they serve.
“Boiling Point,” is executive produced by Jason Samuels
for BET and Mitch Weitzner for CBS News.
“Disrupt & Dismantle,” premieres
Sunday, February 21 at 9 PM ET/PT
“Disrupt & Dismantle” follows Soledad
O’Brien as she tackles injustices across the nation
affecting the Black community, from police brutality to redlining
to school to prison pipeline, to the infant mortality crisis fueled
by systemic racism, this timely new series will take an active and
hard-edged approach to chopping away at the roots of racism. The
series focuses on REAL people with REAL problems, looking for REAL
action. Through gritty reportage and true vérité moments, as well
as raw emotional interviews, and rarely seen archival photos and
footage, this series will offer invaluable insights and truly bring
viewers along on O’Brien’s journey. In each episode of
“Disrupt & Dismantle,” O’Brien will identify an issue
within a particular community, then she will go out into the field
and investigate. She’ll immerse herself in the community, identify
the problems and the problematic people, then speak truth to power.
And, she’ll continue to stir the pot until she not only gets the
critical answers but also finds action items that the audience can
look to put into motion in their own communities. In addition to
extensive on the field interviews with O’Brien, the program
features insights from activists, journalists, politicians and
thought leaders.
In the first episode focusing on “Shingle Mountain” viewers will
travel to Dallas, Texas where O’Brien meets a grandmother
who’s fighting to get a mountain of toxic shingles removed from the
lot behind her house. In the process, she uncovers a widespread yet
rarely-talked-about problem in Dallas, Texas: environmental racism.
O’Brien investigates the city’s “Southern Sector,” where
redlining and discriminatory zoning has segregated black and brown
people and negligently subjected them to be poisoned by heavy
industry. What’s the fight about? Getting the city to finally
remove Shingle Mountain and re-zone the lot so the industry never
returns. Interviews include Former Dallas Morning News
Investigative Reporter Robert Wilonsky, who broke the
Shingle Mountain story, Particulate Matter Scientist Dr. Tate
Barrett, President of Inclusive Communities Project Demetria
McCain, Former Joppa Representative Council Kevin
Felder, Executive Director of Truth, Racial Healing, and
Transformation Jerry Hawkins Dr. Reverend Frederick
Douglass Haynes III, Councilman Tennell Atkins,
Environmental Activist Temeckia Derrough, Temeckia's son
Roderick Randolph, Temeckia's son Leo Derrough,
Former Blue Star Recycling Owner Chris Ganter, Downwinder's
At Risk Evelyn Mayo, Marsha Jackson, Marsha's
Daughter LaKeisha Jackson and Marsha's Granddaughter
Kourtnie Holmes.
“Disrupt & Dismantle,” is Executive Produced by
Soledad O’Brien and Jo Honig for Soledad O’Brien Productions and
Randy Ferrell.
Launched in June 2020 by BET, the social impact initiative
“Content For Change,” addresses issues of systemic racism and
inequities in America, including racial justice, economic
empowerment, education, health, and civic participation witch
content across our platforms.
For more information on the new original “Content For Change”
series, go to www.bet.com and follow us @bet across all social
platforms and use the official hashtags #BoilingPointBET and
#DisruptAndDismantle to engage in this timely discussion.
O’Brien is represented by ICM Partners, manger Eric
Ortner of The Ortner Group and attorney, Ethan J. Cohan from the
firm of Del Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano.
About BET
BET, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIACA, VIAC), is
the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news
and public affairs television programming for the African-American
audience. The primary BET channel is in 125 million households and
can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United
Kingdom, sub-Saharan Africa and France. BET is the dominant
African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business
extensions including BET.com, a leading Internet destination for
Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; BET HER, a 24-hour
entertainment network targeting the African-American Woman; BET
Music Networks - BET Jams, BET Soul and BET Gospel; BET Home
Entertainment; BET Live, BET’s growing festival business; BET
Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for
wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET around
the globe.
About Soledad O’Brien
Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author
and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television
political magazine program “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.”
O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, also
reports for HBO Real Sports, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD and has
authored two books. She has appeared on networks, Fox and Oxygen
and anchored and reported for NBC, MSNBC and CNN. She has won
numerous awards, including three Emmys, the George Peabody award,
an Alfred I DuPont prize and the Gracie. Newsweek Magazine named
her one of the “15 People Who Make America Great.” With her
husband, she is founder of the PowHERful Foundation that helps
young women get to and through college. Follow her on Twitter:
@soledadobrien
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