Shades of Black

Shades of Black zeigt Programme, die sich auf die Erfahrungen, die Geschichte und die kulturellen Beiträge schwarzer Amerikaner konzentrieren. Das Angebot umfasst Dokumentationen über Meilensteine der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, eigene Serien zum zeitgenössischen Familienleben und Unternehmertum sowie Spielfilme von schwarzen Regisseuren und Schauspielern. Regelmäßig laufen Musik-Specials zu Genres wie Jazz, Hip-Hop und Gospel, ergänzt durch Nachrichtenanalysen, die Themen behandeln, die schwarze Gemeinschaften in den gesamten Vereinigten Staaten betreffen. Auch Lifestyle-Beiträge zu Küche, Mode und Gesundheit gehören zum Programm, wobei oft regionale Traditionen und neue Trends im Fokus stehen.

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TV-Programm

Gestern Heute Morgen 12 Mai

02:12 - 04:36

187

A Los Angeles high-school teacher (Samuel L. Jackson) confronts violent students with a grudge against him and society.","large":"When a student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson), he feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but, soon after, Trevor is stabbed by the same student. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as the last one, driving Trevor over the edge.

04:36 - 06:50

Chaos

A veteran detective and a rookie cop have to stop a master thief's computer virus before it drains all the funds from a bank's accounts.","large":"A veteran detective is teamed with a rookie cop when they are sent to negotiate with a bunch of criminals holding a bank hostage. It transpires that a master thief has planted a computer virus that will drain funds from the bank's accounts. The detective faces a race against time to catch the thief and stop the randomly evolving computer virus, which models its behavior on the bewildering principles of chaos theory.

06:50 - 08:32

One in the Chamber

An experienced assassin works for both sides of a Russian gang war and becomes the target of a hidden enemy.

08:32 - 10:18

12 Rounds 3: Lockdown

Framed for a homicide by his fellow officers, a detective (Dean Ambrose) tries to expose the conspiracy to clear his good name.

10:18 - 12:03

Out-of-Sync

A Los Angeles DJ (LL Cool J) in debt to bookies falls for the girlfriend of a drug dealer he is watching for the police.

12:03 - 15:35

The Women of Brewster Place

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

15:35 - 17:20

Mama Flora's Family

A black matriarch instills values of God and family in three generations of 20th-century kin. Adapted from a book by Alex Haley and David Stevens.

17:20 - 19:09

Mama Flora's Family

A black matriarch instills values of God and family in three generations of 20th-century kin. Adapted from a book by Alex Haley and David Stevens.

19:09 - 21:25

Blue Hill Avenue

Four Boston friends (Allen Payne, Aaron D. Spears) become big-time drug dealers but face the wrath of another kingpin.","large":"Four friends enter the drug trade in Boston in the late 1970s: Tristan (Allen Payne), Money (Aaron D. Spears), E-Bone and Simon. With the consent of a South End crime boss, Benny (Clarence Williams III), they quickly rise in the drug game, while the leader of the group, Tristan, keeps his double life a secret from his clueless parents. However, as the 1970s pass to the 2000s, a police investigation threatens to ignite a violent feud among the tight-knit friends.

21:25 - 23:14

100 Streets

Three different stories covering infidelity, adoption and a drug dealer turned actor are intertwined as characters meet in the streets of London.

23:14 - 01:20

Monster's Ball

A racist prison guard has an affair with a Black woman after her husband, who was sentenced to capital punishment, dies.","large":"Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair begins just after Hank oversees the capital punishment of Leticia's husband.