
AfroPoP: Season 16 | Trailer
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Documentary and narrative films about the global Black experience.
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange rebrands as the public media home for both documentary and narrative films about the global Black experience. This season showcases real-life stories about fights for criminal and environmental justice in America, and shines a spotlight on Kenya, with two prize-winning narrative films on redemption and resilient joy.
Funding for AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

AfroPoP: Season 16 | Trailer
Preview | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange rebrands as the public media home for both documentary and narrative films about the global Black experience. This season showcases real-life stories about fights for criminal and environmental justice in America, and shines a spotlight on Kenya, with two prize-winning narrative films on redemption and resilient joy.
How to Watch AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Speaker 1] How people gonna remember you?
- [Speaker 2] I kept telling myself that, freedom is a state of mind.
- [Speaker 3] Where am I?
(tense music) (tense music continues) - Cut.
- Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- [Announcer] AfroPop, The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, Season 16 invites you to explore justice, hope, and redemption through a collection of Afro-futuristic narratives and reflective documentary films.
- [Speaker 4] This call is from a federal prison.
- [Announcer] A mother's fight to rebuild community unjustly stripped away.
- I am home, but I am not free.
I am not free because my sisters are not free.
- [Announcer] Commuted, directed by Naliah Jefferson and produced in collaboration with Danielle Metz.
(groaning) An imaginative girl's journey to becoming a superhero.
- Mike, did you see what I just did?
- [Announcer] Supa Modo, directed by Likarion Wainaina.
(tense music) A motley crew is stuck in the afterlife.
- No one stays here forever.
- But how do we leave if we don't know what brought us here in the first please?
(thunderstorm) - [Announcer] Kati Kati, directed by Mbithi Masya.
- The first flood, a hundred and some people came up out of this cemetery.
Daddy came up.
- [Announcer] And the impact of flooding on a historic black community.
Freedom Hill, directed by Resita Cox.
(gentle music) This season of AfroPop captures resilience and hope to illustrate the global black experience.
AfroPop, The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.
(gentle music)
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Documentary and narrative films about the global Black experience. (1m 56s)
Video has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFunding for AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.